city
Lyon
Lyon, France
45.748, 4.846
Attested. The letter and Irenaeus's episcopate are standard history. Details of the mob violence come from that one main account.
Roman Lugdunum. A Greek-speaking Christian community suffered a persecution in 177, described in a letter preserved by Eusebius. Irenaeus became its bishop.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Cited notes
177. Persecution of the churches of Lyons and Vienne, preserved by Eusebius. Irenaeus later served as bishop here.
Eusebius, Church History V.1 (NPNF2 1) · Verified in the source note
Further reading
Councils here
None in this list.