Saint Gebuin

Lyon Cathedral.

Gébuin (or Jubin) was an archbishop of Lyon who served 1077 to 1082.[1][2][3]

A native of Loraine, there he was a canon of Langres in 1059 and archdeacon, 1068.[4] He succeeds Umberto II in 1077, supported by the papal legate and future successor Hugh of Die, and is canonically elected at a council meeting in Autun by the church representative of Lyon.[5]

In 1079, he traveled to Rome and Pope Gregory VII receives a papal bull of 19 April 1079 granting (or confirming) the primacy of the Archbishop of Lyon on four ecclesiastical provinces of Lyon, Sens, Rouen and Tours.

As Primate he tried to make the clergy in Tours relinquish preoperty that had been acquired unjustly. However he met with resistance and delay by the clergy of that diocese.[6] In 1080 1 Gébuin gives the church of Boisse with all his parish, and two chaplaincies, to the order of Saint-Ruf, who established a priory. The same year, he donated the church of Saint-Oyen Meillonnas, the Saint-Pierre church of religious

He is considered to be a Catholic saint; on his feast day is 18 April1.

References

  1. ↑ Jacques Gadille (dir.), René Fédou, Henri Hours et Bernard de Vregille, Le diocèse de Lyon, Paris, Beauchesne, coll. « Histoire des diocèses de France » (no 16), 1983, p316.
  2. ↑ Jean-François Reynaud, François Richard (dir.) et Michel Rubellin, « Les archevêques de Lyon, les abbayes lyonnaises et la Réforme grégorienne », dans L'abbaye d'Ainay : des origines au XIIe siècle, Lyon, Presses universitaires de Lyon, 2008, 302 p. (ISBN 978-2-7297-0806-1, notice BnF no FRBNF42414418), p. 181-201
  3. ↑ Jubin at GCatholic.org.
  4. ↑ Jacques Gadille (dir.), René Fédou, Henri Hours et Bernard de Vregille, Le diocèse de Lyon, Paris, Beauchesne, coll. « Histoire des diocèses de France » (no 16), 1983, p316.
  5. ↑ Marie-Claude Guigue, Topographie historique du département de l'Ain, Bourg-en-Bresse, (Gromier Ainé, 1873) p 226-227.
  6. ↑ Jacques Gadille (dir.), René Fédou, Henri Hours et Bernard de Vregille, Le diocèse de Lyon, Paris, Beauchesne, coll. « Histoire des diocèses de France » (no 16), 1983 p 316.
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