Viventiolus, (later of Lyon)

Viventiolus was bishop of Lyon in the early sixth century, succeeding Stephanus around 514/515 and dying about 523/524, within the Gallo-Roman world of the Burgundian kingdom. Before his episcopate he had been a monk at the prominent Jura monastery of Saint-Oyend (Condat), and he was remembered as a learned and rhetorically accomplished churchman. As metropolitan bishop of Lyon he presided over the Council of Epaon in 517, the major Burgundian synod that he convened jointly with Avitus, the metropolitan of Vienne. He appears in the corpus chiefly as the recipient of letters from Avitus of Vienne, his episcopal colleague, with whom he led the church of the Burgundian realm.