LICINIANO of Cartagena. – Active in the years 582–602. According to the scant notices preserved by St Isidore and in the writings of L., he was bishop of Cartago Spartaria (today Cartagena in Spain).
Three of his letters survive: De libro regularum ad s. Gregorium papam ubi Romae; ad Epiphanium diaconum; ad Vincentium episcopum Ebositame Insulae. L. was driven into exile and forced to go to Constantinople, it is not known whether on some official mission, and died under mysterious circumstances “poisoned, so they say, by his fellow-countrymen” (Isidore) in the days of Emperor Maurice.
L. taught in Scripture and tradition, defended the spirituality of the human soul, distinguished in the angels a spiritual part and a corporeal part, and drew inspiration for his doctrine from Claudianus Mamertus. He praised the Regula Pastoralis of St Gregory.