Christian theologian and bishop of the 4th century
Lamp with staurogram from 4th-century Caesarea Maritima .
Euzoius of Caesarea (Greek : Ευζώιος , romanized : Euzōios ; fl. AD 373–379 ) was a Christian theologian and bishop of the 4th century.[ 1] [ 2]
In Jerome 's De viris illustribus , he writes that Euzoius was educated alongside Gregory of Nazianzus by "Thespesius the rhetorician " at Caesarea Maritima . In 373 Euzoius became Bishop of Caesarea and he worked to restore its library , copying many papyrus works to parchment .[ 3] [ 4] He was expelled from the church during the reign of Theodosius I (r. 379–395). He wrote several treatises , none of which survives.[ 2]
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