BAGADIUS. – Bishop of Bostra in Arabia, while he was away from his see, was condemned and deposed by the bishops Cyril—apparently of Jerusalem—and Palladius, who replaced him with Agapius. He vigorously protested the injustice at the Council of Constantinople in 381, in which his rival was also present. The Council entrusted Gregory of Nyssa with settling the dispute, but he was unsuccessful. The contenders then turned to Pope Siricius, who entrusted the matter to Theophilus of Alexandria. The controversy, which lasted more than ten years, was finally resolved only by the Council of Constantinople in 394, most likely in favor of B., as can be inferred from the surviving fragments of the Council’s Acts.
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