bishop of Helenopolis in Bithynia, and then of Aspona. He was a Galatian, and born at Cappadocia. Palladius 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 entitled it Lausiacu, after the name of that lord, to whom he dedicated it in 429, when it was written, being then the 20th year of his episcopacy, and 53d 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 5th century, but in what year is not certain. His History was published in Greek by Meurinus at Amsterdam in 1610, 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 1680.