# Autonomus

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:''"Autonomus" is a frequent misspelling of "[autonomous](/source/wiktionary%3Aautonomous)"''.

'''Saint Autonomus''' ([Greek](/source/Greek_language): Άγιος Αυτόνομος; died 313) is a [martyr](/source/martyr) [saint](/source/saint).  He is said to have been an [Italian](/source/Italian_people) bishop who escaped the [Diocletianic Persecution](/source/Diocletianic_Persecution) by migrating to [Bithynia](/source/Bithynia) in [Asia Minor](/source/Asia_Minor).  He [evangelized](/source/Evangelism) the region, served as first bishop of [Claudiopolis](/source/Bolu) and was subsequently martyred. 

In the [Eastern Orthodox Church](/source/Eastern_Orthodox_Church), his [feast day](/source/feast_day) is celebrated on September 12.

==External links==
*[http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0912.shtml#auto Autonomus]

==Further reading==
*Clive Foss, "St. Autonomus and His Church in Bithynia," ''Dumbarton Oaks Papers'', Vol. 41, Studies on Art and Archeology in Honor of Ernst Kitzinger on His Seventy-Fifth Birthday (1987), pp.&nbsp;187–198.

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