ZOSIMAS. – Ascetic of the sixth century, founder of a monastery near Caesarea in Palestine (Evagrius, Hist. eccl., IV, 7), cited by Dorotheus in his Diversae doctrinae. Some conferences of Z. were transmitted by one of his disciples (PG 78, 1679–1702).
BIBL.: S. Vailhé, S. Dorothée et st. Zotime, in Echos d'Orient, 4 (1901), pp. 359–63; M. Viller–K. Rahner, Acceae und Mystik in der Väterzeit, Freiburg 1926, p. 161. Erik Peterson