Ptolémaeus of Lyon

Ptolemy, also known as Ptolémée, Ptolomeus or Ptolemaeus, is the 8th Bishop of Lyon. He succeeds Jules in the second half of the 3rd century.

We know very little of his life. His name is known to us from the various lists of the first archbishops of Lyon and chronicles the history of the Church of Lyon. He is quoted in a catalog of the Abbey of Île Barbe. He is also the last bishop of Lyon to have a Greek name. The early Christian community of Lyons originally having strong links with Asia Minor that gradually disappear with the development of Christianity in Gaul.