Definition of Donatist. Meaning of Donatist. Synonyms of Donatist

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Definition of Donatist

Donatist
Donatist Don"a*tist, n. [LL. Donatista: cf. F. Donatiste.] (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Donatus, the leader of a body of North African schismatics and purists, who greatly disturbed the church in the 4th century. They claimed to be the true church.

Meaning of Donatist from wikipedia

- region of the Church of Carthage, from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Donatists argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be...
- Catholic bishops and one Donatist are recorded: Maximi****, who attended the Conference of Carthage (411); Germ****, the Donatist bishop who attended the...
- Augustine developed his doctrine of the Church prin****lly in reaction to the Donatist sect. He taught there is one Church, but within this Church there are two...
- Casae Nigrae, was the leader of a schismatic Christian sect known as the Donatists in North Africa, Algeria. He is believed to have died in exile around...
- Optat became the spokesman for the Donatist movement. After Optat, Thamugadai had two bishops Gaudentius (Donatist) and Faustinus (Catholic). In the 5th...
- Lombards, and Visigoths align with Rome in religion. He also combated the Donatist heresy, po****r particularly in North Africa at the time. Throughout the...
- view originated from letters, dated to between 400 and 410, written by Donatist Bishop Petili**** of Constantine, who claimed that Marcellinus, along with...
- bishop and Christian martyr venerated by the 4th-century North African Donatist Church. Marculus, a bishop of Thamugadi in Numidia, rose to prominence...
- Berbers were members of the Early African Church (but evolved their own Donatist doctrine), some were Berber Jews, and some adhered to traditional Berber...
- province was Christianized, but in the fourth century, it adhered to the Donatist heresy, despite giving rise to men of Orthodox faith as illustrious as...