EUZOIO. — Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, where he had been a companion of s. Gregorio Nazianzeno at the school of a certain Thespele.
The emperor Valens appointed him to that see, because of his Arian views, in place of Bishop Gelasius. He was still occupying it
in 376–77, when Epiphanius was writing his Panarion. He made great efforts to restore the famous library of that city, formed chiefly from the works of Origen, collected and donated by Pamphilus. With the accession of Theodosius, he had to abandon the see, to which Gelasius returned. Of the “various and numerous treatises” that, according to s. Girolamo (De viris illustr., 113), he is said to have published, nothing remains.
BIBL.: Tillemont, VI, p. 570; Bardenhewer, III, p. 282. Irenco Daniele