Elpidius of Atella was a Catholic bishop who led the church in Atella, Africa, for roughly twenty years. Born into a noble family in 388, he was consecrated to the episcopacy around 420. During the period of Vandalic persecution led by Gaiseric, he was among twelve bishops sentenced to death and sent away on a vessel without oars or sails. The ship eventually wrecked near the coast of Campania. He began his tenure as the bishop of Atella in 432 and passed away in 452.