Zosimus

Zosimus is known chiefly as a recipient of letters from Isidore of Pelusium, the prolific ascetic and exegete who wrote some two thousand surviving epistles from the monastic milieu near Pelusium in the eastern Nile Delta during the first decades of the fifth century AD. Like most of Isidore's addressees, he was probably a member of the local clergy or monastic community, or a correspondent in spiritual and scriptural matters, active in or around Pelusium in the early fifth century. Beyond his appearance in this correspondence he is not securely attested, and no specific dates, offices, or events can be reliably attached to him; the name Zosimus is common, and identifications with other figures of that name remain conjectural.