EuzOius. — Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, where he had been a companion of St. Gregory Nazianzen at the school of a certain Thespele.
Emperor Valens replaced him in that see, on account of his Arian views, with Bishop Gelasius. He was still occupying it in 376-377 when Epiphanius was writing his Panarion. He worked hard to restore the famous library of that city, which had been especially enriched with the works of Origen, collected and donated by Pamphilus, at the coming of Theodosius when he abandoned the see, to which Gelasius returned. Of the “various and manifold treatises which he, according to St. Jerome (De viris illustr., 113), would have published,” nothing remains.
EuzOius, bishop of Antioch, formerly deacon of Alexandria. — He was one of the first followers of Arius, together with whom he was excommunicated and deposed in 320 by Bishop Alexander of Alexandria (Socrates, Hist. Eccl., I, 6) and later by the Council of Nicaea (325). In 332 he was invited to Nicomedia together with Arius and presented to Constantine an equivocal formula, which gained him imperial pardon.
In 335 he was received into communion with the Church of Jerusalem. In 361 the strict Arians had him consecrated bishop of Antioch in opposition to Meletius. In November 361 he baptized the dying Constantius II at Mopsucrene in Cilicia. The Arian Valens in 372 delivered over to him the churches of Antioch, wrested from the followers of Meletius, and in 373 he appeared at Alexandria to install the Arian Lucius in the see of Athanasius. Poor revenge for the expulsion of 53 years before. He died in 376 c.