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Adventius, Bishop of Metz

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

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early embraced the clerical life, and was educated under the supervision of Drogo, whom he succeeded in the above-mentioned see in 855. He was present and spoke in the Synod of Metz in 869, and in that of Douzi in 871. Besides his own epitaph, which he made, there is extant (in Baronius) the writing which he composed in favor of the divorce between Lothair and his queen Thietburga See Mleurisse, Hist. des Eveques de lEglise de Metz; Rivet, Hist. Lit. de la France, v, 249.

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McClintock, John. Strong, James. Entry for 'Adventius, Bishop of Metz'. Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​tce/​a/adventius-bishop-of-metz.html. Harper & Brothers. New York. 1870.
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