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For Saint Severin of Noricum see Severinus of Noricum.Saint Severin of Cologne (in Latin Severinus) was the third known Bishop of Cologne living in the later 4th century. Little is known of him. He is said in 376 to have founded a monastery in the then Colonia Agrippina in honour of the martyrs Saints Cornelius and Cyprian from which developed the later Basilica of St. Severin. Severin is notable as a prominent opponent of Arianism.

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