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Definition of Paulianist

Paulianist
Paulian Pau"li*an, Paulianist Pau"li*an*ist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.

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- 275 AD) was Bishop of Antioch from 260 to 268 and the originator of the Paulianist heresy named after him. He was a believer in monarchianism, a nontrinitarian...
- Antioch, Paul of Samosata. This may be a conflation with the separate Paulianist sect, however, and the earliest Byzantine source to describe the movement...
- king." This usage is now considered obsolete. They are mentioned as Paulianists in a treatise on the reception of heretics written by Patriarch Timothy...
- Tascodrugites, Ebionites, Valentinians, Basilideans, Montanists, Eunomians, Paulianists, Photinians, Marcellians, Sabellians, Simonians, Menandrians, Cerinthians...