Athaloc was the
Visigothic
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Arian
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Archbishop of Narbonne
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at the time of the
Third Council of Toledo
The Third Council of Toledo (589) marks the entry of Visigothic Spain into the Catholic Church, and is known for codifying the filioque clause into Western Christianity."Filioque." Cross, F. L., ed. The Oxford dictionary of the Christian church. ...
in 589. He was the metropolitan of his province in parallel with the
Catholic
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hierarchy.
Early in 589,
Reccared I
Reccared I (or Recared; la, Flavius Reccaredus; es, Flavio Recaredo; 559 – December 601; reigned 586–601) was Visigothic King of Hispania and Septimania. His reign marked a climactic shift in history, with the king's renunciation of Aria ...
sent word of his conversion to Catholicism to
Septimania, where it incited a rebellion on behalf of Arianism by two prominent counts, Granista and Wildigern, and the bishop Athaloc. The rebels sought to overthrow Reccared and the Catholic faith and to this end they called in the aid of the Catholic and
Frankish king of Burgundy
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Kings of the Burgundians
* Gebicca (late 4th century – c. 40 ...
,
Guntram
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. The Frankish army under Boso, however, was destroyed by
Claudius, Duke of Lusitania
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In 587, after a count named Witteric had exposed the plot o ...
. Many Catholics died in the process of the rebellion. Athaloc, however, was not deposed and died a natural death. He never converted to Catholicism.
See also
*
Christianity in France
References
Sources
*Thompson, E. A. ''The Goths in Spain''. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969.
*Collins, Roger. "King Leovigild and the Conversion of the Visigoths." ''Law, Regionalism and Culture in Early Medieval Spain''. Variorum, 1992.
Archbishops of Narbonne
Arian bishops
6th-century people of the Visigothic Kingdom
6th-century archbishops
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