Pseudo-Evodius

Pseudo-Evodius is the author of three Coptic language Christian works that were probably created at some point in the 6th–8th centuries. The author pseudepigraphically identifies himself as Evodius of Rome and "successor of Peter", which is almost certainly a reference to the 1st-century bishop Evodius. Not very much remains of early records of Evodius, but older sources generally placed him as Bishop of Antioch, not Rome. It is not known whether the author made a mistake and thought that Evodius succeeded Peter in Rome rather than Antioch, or intentionally moved him as part of an appeal to Roman authority, or if a genuine Egyptian Christian tradition existed that directly claimed Evodius went to Rome at some point.

The three works of New Testament apocrypha are all homilies. They have been given titles by later scholars as the Homily on the Dormition of the Virgin, Homily on the Passion and Resurrection, and Homily on the Life of Jesus and His Love for the Apostles. They are "apostolic memoirs", a genre that flourished in Egyptian Christianity.