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

- in the Archdiocese of Carthage from the fourth to the sixth centuries. Donatists argued that Christian clergy must be faultless for their ministry to be...
- 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...
- 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...
- then bishop of Carthage in 311 AD. His appointment as bishop led to the Donatist controversy of the Late Roman Empire. He was also one of only five Western...
- Hilary?" (De doctrina Christiana, xl). His (untitled) work against the Donatists is an answer to Parmeni****, the successor of Donatus in the primatial...
- Catholic bishops and one Donatist are recorded: Maximi****, who attended the Conference of Carthage (411); Germ****, the Donatist bishop who attended the...
- Luperciana (fl. 256 ) Luperciana was centered in the heartland of the Donatist movement of the 4th century and during the Vandal Kingdom the official...
- notably convened the Council of Arles in 314, which condemned the separatist Donatist sect, and the First Council of Nicaea in 325, which aimed to resolve the...
- him. He was married to Anapsychia. In Africa, the dispute between the Donatists and orthodox Christians was not only doctrinal but also involved regional...
- In 317, Constantine issued an edict to confiscate Donatist church property and to send Donatist clergy into exile. More significantly, in 325 he summoned...