BAGADIO. - Bishop of Bostra in Arabia, while he was away from his see, he was condemned and deposed by the bishops Cirillo, apparently of Jerusalem, and Palladio, who replaced him with Agapio. He protested vigorously against the injustice at the Council of Constantinople of 381, at which his rival also sat. The Council charged Gregorio di Nissa with settling the dispute, but he did not succeed. The contenders then appealed to Pope Siricio, who entrusted the matter to Teofilo d'Alessandria. The controversy, which lasted for more than ten years, was resolved only by the Council of Constantinople of 394, most probably in B.'s favor, as may be inferred from the surviving fragments of the Acts of the Council.
BIBL.: L. Duchesne, Histoire ancienne de l'Eglise, II, 4th ed., Parigi 1910, pp. 623-26; P. Batifol, Le Siège apostolique, 3rd ed., ivi 1924, pp. 284-85; T. R. Palanque, in A. Fliche e V. Martin, Storia della Chiesa, III, Italian trans. by A. P. Frutaz, Torino [1940], p. 463. Ireneo Daniele