Sunna, Bishop of Mérida
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Sunna was an Arian Bishop of Mérida who together with count Segga headed a rising in Lusitania against the Visigothic king Reccared I after Reccared renounced Arianism in favour of Catholicism.
After Claudius, Reccared's dux Lusitaniae, successfully put down the rising Sunna was banished to Mauritania.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Isidore of Seville, Historia de regibus Gothorum, Vandalorum et Suevorum, chapter 54. Translation by Guido Donini and Gordon B. Ford, Isidore of Seville's History of the Goths, Vandals, and Suevi, second revised edition (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970), p. 25