bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia, and then of Apion. He was a Galatian, and born at Cappadocia. He became an Anchorite in the mountain of Nebría in 388, and was consecrated a bishop in 401. He was an intimate friend of St John Chrysostom, whom he never forsook during the time of his persecution, nor even in his exile. He went to Rome some time after Chrysostom's death, and at the request of Lausus governor of Cappadocia, composed the history of the Anchorites or Hermits, and intitled it Lausus, after the name of that lord, to whom he dedicated it in 420, when it was written, being then in the 20th year of his episcopacy, and 53rd of his age. Palladius was accused of being an Origenist. It is true, he was an enemy to St Jerome, of whom he does not speak well, and was intimately connected with Rufinus; but perhaps no good proof can be brought of his Origenism. He had been the disciple of Evagrius of Pontus, and was even suspected of entertaining the sentiments of Pelagius. He died in the 4th century, but in what year is not certain. His History was published in Greek by Meursius at Amsterdam in 1619, and in Latin in the Bibliotheca Patrum; but he seems not to have been the writer of the Life of St John Chrysostom, in Greek and Latin by M. Bigot, printed in 1685.