Claudius, a learned bishop of Hierapolis, who, about the year 170, presented to Marcus Aurelius an excellent Apology for the Christians.

APOLLINARIUS the Younger, thus called to distinguish him from his father, called Apollinarius the Elder, was at first lector or reader of Laodicea, and afterwards bishop of that city. He was universally esteemed the greatest man of his age, both for learning and piety, and a most accurate and nervous defender of the faith against all its enemies: but notwithstanding this, on his advancing some opinions that were not approved, he was anathematized as a heretic by the second general council of Constantinople in 381.