EVODIUS. – A friend of St Augustine, he followed him to Rome and was present at the death of St Monica (Augustine, Conf., IX, 12, 31; cf. IX, 8, 17); then both returned to Africa. From about 396 he was bishop of Uzala in proconsular Africa, and died in 426. After taking part in a mission to Rome to request the application of Theodosian laws against the Donatists, he provoked their anger against himself (404).
Probably E. is the author of the treatise: De fide contra Manichaeos (PL 42, 1139-54; CSEL, 23, ed. I. Zycha, p. 940). In the collection of the Letters of St Augustine (nos. 153, 160, 161, 163) four letters by E. have been preserved, and another addressed to the abbot Valentinus of Adrumetum on the problems of predestination and grace was published by G. Morin in Revue bénédictine, 18 (1901), pp. 241-56.