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Castritian

Portrait of Castritian

About Castritian

Castritian is remembered in the medieval Milanese episcopal sequence as an early bishop. The chronology behind that sequence is insecure: modern scholarship identifies Mirocles, not the earlier names in the list, as the first Milanese bishop securely attested in reliable sources. No secure life details survive for Castritian, so the biography should stop at this qualified statement.

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