04 — Bishop and Abbot

The two great offices of the tradition, treated where they are most contested and most characteristic: the doubtful episcopate of Besançon, which the critical fasti hedge or omit, and the resignation-and-return to Condat, the monastic ideal of the cloister chosen over the see.

File	Description
the-besancon-episcopate.md	The contested bishopric (traditionally 685–692); the unreliable episcopal lists; the telling omission from the Catholic Encyclopedia; the conflation with an earlier Claudius
the-return-to-condat.md	The resignation of the see and the final abbacy; the disputed order of his offices; the bishop who chooses the cloister

See Also

• 03 — The Tradition of His Life — the full career and the legendary accretions
• 05 — The Rule and the Monastic Life — the monastic life he is said to have returned to
• Master README — the collection overview