Patrophilus was the Arian bishop of Scythopolis in the early-mid 4th century AD.
[1] When Arius was exiled to Palestine in 323 AD, Patrophilus warmly welcomed him.
[4] From 354 to 355, he acted together with Acacius of Caesarea to depose the bishop of Jerusalem, Maximus, who supported the Nicene Creed, and replaced him with Cyril, who they thought was also an Arian.
In 359, he was one of a delegation to the emperor Constantius II to protest the depositions of Arian clergy by Basil of Caesarea.
[6] Philostorgius mentions that after his death his body was disinterred and his bones scattered in 361 during the pagan reaction under Julian.