. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . II, ; Gillow, Diet, of Eng. Cath., 1, 552 sqq.; Cooper in Biog., XII, 36. Patrick Ryan. Constance (Lat. Constantin, Ger. Konstanz orConstanz, Czechic name Kostnitz), formerly the seatof a diocese. Constance, a very ancient town sit-uated where the Ri\-er Rhine flows out of the Bodensee(between the Bodensee and the Untersee) in the south-eastern part of the Grand Duchy of Baden, was origin-ally a village of lake-dwellers w^hic
. The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 4); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . II, ; Gillow, Diet, of Eng. Cath., 1, 552 sqq.; Cooper in Biog., XII, 36. Patrick Ryan. Constance (Lat. Constantin, Ger. Konstanz orConstanz, Czechic name Kostnitz), formerly the seatof a diocese. Constance, a very ancient town sit-uated where the Ri\-er Rhine flows out of the Bodensee(between the Bodensee and the Untersee) in the south-eastern part of the Grand Duchy of Baden, was origin-ally a village of lake-dwellers w^hich under Roman rulewas fortified by Constantius Chlorus in 304. Chris-tianity seems to have been introduced into Constanceand the neighbouring country by Roman legionaries asearly as the end of the second or the beginning of thethird century. The episcopal see was first at Vin-donissa, the present Windisch in the Canton of Aargauin Switzerland. It is not known when this see waserected. The first bishop of whom historj has pre-served any record is Bubulcus who was ]:iresent at theBurgundian Synod of Epaon in 517. (Mansi, AmpL CONSTANCE 287 CONSTANCE. Interior of Cathedral Coll. Cone, VIII, 565.) Hp was succeeded by Gram-matius, who attended a Frankish synod at Clermont in535 (ibid., VIII, 863), one at Orleans in 541 (ibid., IX,120), and a third at Orleans in 549 (ibid., IX, 136).After this time history makes no further mention ofthe Diocese of Vindonissa. Since, however, the neigh-bouring city of Constance is for the first time men-tioned as an episcopal see about this time, it becomesalmost a certainty that from Vindonissa the see wastransferred to Constance. The episcopal cataloguesof Constance designate Maximus as the first andRudolph as the second bishop, but nothing further isknown about them. Walafrid Strabo, in his VitaS. Galli, speaks of a certain Gaudentius as Bishop ofConstance, after whose death (c. 613) the bishopricwas offered toSt. Gall who,however, re-fused the dig
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