Asinio

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Asinio lived in the 5th century . He was the first bishop of Chur to be mentioned in a document.

Life

In 451 a synod of bishops of the Ecclesiastical Province of Milan met under the leadership of Metropolitan Eusebius. The synodal letter of Eusebius to Pope Leo the Great with the signatures of the participants, where the name of the Bishop of Chur also appears in passing, is handwritten .

The bishops gathered in Milan gave their consent to Pope Leo's dogmatic letter Tomus ad Flavianum to Archbishop Flavian of Constantinople , in which he directed himself against Monophysitism . Leos Tomus ad Flavianum was read out almost simultaneously at the fourth general council in Chalcedon ( 451 ) and approved by the council participants (“Peter spoke through Leo”). He decisively influenced the dogmatic decision of the council.

The synodal letter of Eusebius of Milan to Leo the Great was signed by 19 bishops (including Eusebius). The then Chur bishop Asinio is not among them, although the diocese of Chur belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Milan. His neighbor Bishop Abundantius of Como (also called Abundius) signed on his behalf with the following words:

“Ego, Abundantius episcopus ecclesiae Comensis, in omnia supra scripta consensi et pro me et pro absente sancto fratre meo Asinione episcopo ecclesiae Curiensis primae Raetiae subscripsi anathema dicens his, qui de incarnationis dominicae
, Abundantamento impia." from Como, I have agreed to all of the above and have signed for me and [on behalf of] my absent holy brother Asinio, Bishop of the Church of Chur in the [province] of Raetia prima, and expressed the anathema about those who sinful about the mystery of the Incarnation having thought of the Lord ”).

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predecessor Office successor
- Bishop of Chur
around 451 		unknown
personal data
SURNAME Asinio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bishop of Chur
DATE OF BIRTH before 451
DATE OF DEATH 5th century