On Evagrius, known generally as Evagrius of Antioch, to distinguish him from Evagrius the historian, see especially Theodoret, Ecc. Hist. v. 23.  He had travelled to Italy with Eusebius of Vercellæ.  His communication to Basil from the Western bishops must have been disappointing and unsatisfactory.  On his correspondence with Basil, after his return to Antioch, see Letter clvi.  His consecration by the dying Paulinus in 388 inevitably prolonged the disastrous Meletian schism at Antioch.