Reticius

{{short description|Bishop and writer}}

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| death_date = ~334 AD

| feast_day = May 15

| venerated_in = Roman Catholic Church

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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.{{cite web|url=http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/02144a.htm|title=Autun|year=2009|publisher=Catholic Encyclopedia|accessdate=April 23, 2009}}

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.{{cite web|url= http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienR/Reticius_von_Autun.html|title=Reticius von Autun |publisher=Ökumenisches Heiligenlexikon|accessdate=April 23, 2009}}

Gregory of Tours praised Reticius in his writings. 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.{{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}}

Reticius was succeeded by Cassian of Autun, also venerated as a saint.