Kalani Craig

About This Bishop Regnal dates: Unknown Regnal length: Unknown Profession before consecration: Unknown Father: Unknown Birth place: Unknown Burial place: the basilica of Probus (died in Classe on Sept. 27?) Distinctive features: Unknown Key players: Unknown	Episcopal Stats Miracles performed: Unknown Dead revived: Unknown People converted: Many (most of which came after the end of Vespasian's persecution) Priests ordained: Unknown Precious objects donated: Unknown Churches built: Unknown Martyred: Unknown
Interesting fact: Although Apollinaris was the first bishop in Ravenna (as far as Agnellus is concerned), and thus the first episcopal life to appear in the LPR, Aderitus was the first consecrated bishop of Ravenna.

Aderitus’ life is somewhat less detailed, to say the least, than Agnellus’ life of Apollinaris, but the structure of the gesta genre requires that each bishop have a fully fleshed out life. Aderitus is thus instructive for the modern historian studying Ravenna’s episcopal politics because his life offers an example of the kinds of topoi Agnellus uses in the absence of any other data about a bishop.

Works cited: Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis, or The Book of the Pontiffs of Ravenna, ch. 3.