Leucadius of Bayeux

Lefkada (Leucadius) was a bishop of Bayeux from the first half of the 6th century.[1]

He is the first bishop of Bayeux whose presence is attested. In 538 he attended the Third Council of Orléans. He sent the priest Theodorus as a representative to the Fourth Council of Orléans in 541 and again to the Fifth Council of Orléans of October 549.[2]

References

Élisabeth Deniaux, Claude Lorren, Pierre Bauduin et Thomas Jarry, La Normandie avant les Normands : de la conquête romaine à l’arrivée des Vikings, Rennes, Éditions Ouest-France, coll. « Université », 2002 (ISBN 2-7373-1117-9), p. 320.
Duchesne, p. 220 no. 5. Carolus De Clercq, Concilia Galliae, A. 511 – A. 695 (Turnholt: Brepols 1963), pp. 129, 145, 160.

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[1] Élisabeth Deniaux, Claude Lorren, Pierre Bauduin et Thomas Jarry, La Normandie avant les Normands : de la conquête romaine à l’arrivée des Vikings, Rennes, Éditions Ouest-France, coll. « Université », 2002 (ISBN 2-7373-1117-9), p. 320.

[2] Duchesne, p. 220 no. 5. Carolus De Clercq, Concilia Galliae, A. 511 – A. 695 (Turnholt: Brepols 1963), pp. 129, 145, 160.