{{short description|Bishop and writer}} {{Infobox saint | honorific_prefix = Saint | name = Reticius | birth_date = | death_date = ~334 AD | feast_day = May 15 | venerated_in = Roman Catholic Church | image = | imagesize = | caption = | birth_place = | death_place = | titles = Bishop | beatified_date = | beatified_place = | beatified_by = | canonized_date = Pre-Congregation | canonized_place = | canonized_by = | attributes = | patronage = | major_shrine = Autun Cathedral | suppressed_date = | issues = }} '''Saint Reticius''' (or ''Rheticus, Rheticius'') ({{langx|fr|Saint Rhétice|link=no}}) (early 4th century) was a bishop of Autun, the first one known to history, according to the ''Catholic Encyclopedia''. He was a Gallo-Roman, and an ecclesiastical writer, and served as bishop of this see from around 310 to 334 AD.<ref name="catholic">{{cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02144a.htm|title=Autun|year=2009|publisher=Catholic Encyclopedia|accessdate=April 23, 2009}}</ref>
He traveled on behalf of Emperor Constantine the Great in 313 to the Synod of Rome and in 314 to the Synod of Arles, in order to bring about a resolution to the dispute with the Donatists.<ref name="heiligen">{{cite web|url= http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienR/Reticius_von_Autun.html|title=Reticius von Autun |publisher=Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon|accessdate=April 23, 2009}}</ref>
Gregory of Tours praised Reticius in his writings.<ref name="heiligen"/> Saint Jerome mentions Reticius in his ''De Viris Illustribus'':
:Reticius, bishop of Autun, among the Aedui, had a great reputation in Gaul in the reign of :Constantine. I have read his commentaries ''On the Song of Songs'' and another great volume :''Against Novatian'' but besides these, I have found no works of his.<ref name="jerome">{{cite web|url= http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/npnf203.v.iii.lxxxiv.html|title= Lives of Illustrious Men. Chapter LXXXII.|author=Saint Jerome|publisher=Christian Classics Ethereal Library|accessdate=April 23, 2009}}</ref>
Reticius was succeeded by Cassian of Autun, also venerated as a saint.
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==External links== *{{BBKL|r/reticius_v_a|band=8|autor= Josef Rist|artikel= Reticius, Bischof von Autun|spalten=57-58}} *[http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienR/Reticius_von_Autun.html Reticius von Autun] {{in lang|de}}
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Category:4th-century bishops in Gaul Category:Bishops of Autun Category:330s deaths Category:Gallo-Roman saints Category:Aedui Category:Year of birth unknown