Agobard
Sign in to saveAgobard of Lyon (840) was a Spanish-born priest and archbishop of Lyon, during the Carolingian Renaissance. The author of multiple treatises, ranging in subject matter from the iconoclast controversy to Spanish Adoptionism to critiques of the Carolingian royal family, Agobard is best known for his critiques of Jewish religious practices and political power in the Frankish-Carolingian realm. He was succeeded by Amulo of Lyons.
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- Born
- 769
- Died
- 840
- Works
- 12
Top works
- Opera
- Kann ein Christ Antisemit sein?
- De la grêle et du tonnerre
- Sancti Agobardi archiepiscopi Lvgdvnensis Opera item epistolae et opuscula
- Opera, qvae octingentos annos in tenebris delituerant
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Key facts
- Saint.honorific_prefix
- Saint
- Saint.name
- Agobard
- Saint.feast_day
- 6 June
- Saint.birth_place
- Spain
- Saint.titles
- Archbishop
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Key dates
- Born
- 769
- Died
- 6 June 840
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Carolingian Empire
- Place of birth
- Catalonia
- Place of death
- Saintes
- Occupation
- Catholic bishop
- Languages spoken
- Latin
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- Student of
- Leidrad of Lyon
- Image
- Sancti Agobardi episcopi (1605).jpg
Article
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- Early life
- Anti-Jewish polemic
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- Political problems
- Exile and return
- Other works
- References
- Further reading
- External links
Agobard of Lyon (840) was a Spanish-born priest and archbishop of Lyon, during the Carolingian Renaissance. The author of multiple treatises, ranging in subject matter from the iconoclast controversy to Spanish Adoptionism to critiques of the Carolingian royal family, Agobard is best known for his critiques of Jewish religious practices and political power in the Frankish-Carolingian realm. He was succeeded by Amulo of Lyons.
==Early life== A native of Spain, Agobard moved to Lyon in 792. He was ordained as a priest , and was well-liked by the archbishop of Lyon, Leidrad (r. 799–816). At some point, Agobard was ordained as a chorbishop, or assistant bishop. Controversy arose in 814, when the aging Leidrad retired into a monastery, appointing Agobard as his successor. While Carolingian emperor Louis the Pious did not object to the appointment, some of the other bishops did, calling a synod at Arles to protest the elevation of a new bishop while the old bishop still lived. Archbishop Leidrad died in 816, and the controversy fizzled out, leaving Agobard as the new archbishop. Soon after taking office, he confronted several issues, which included opposing trials by ordeal, and, in 818, writing against Felix of Urgel's Spanish Adoptionist Christology.