458-65

Updated: May 28, 2025

Beginning with the archdiocese of Rouen, and bearing in mind that it is not the way of ecclesiastical traditions to err on the side of lateness, the first dated bishops in the several dioceses are as follows. The third bishop of Rouen, or, as some count, the second, was at Arles in 314. The third bishop of Bayeux dates 458-65. The second bishop of Avranches, 511.

G. F. (George Forrest) Browne - The Christian Church in These Islands before the Coming of Augustine: Three Lectures Delivered at St. Paul's in January 1894