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Definition of Paulicians

Paulician
Paulician Pau"li*cian, n. [Etymol. uncertain.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.

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- doctrinally the Paulicians were a largely conventional Christian reform movement unrelated to any of these currents. The founder of the Paulicians is traditionally...
- argued that the witness of Photius on the Paulicians was inaccurate, and that there were many classes of Paulicians, whom Photius and Siculus lumped wrongly...
- was fought in 872 or 878 between the Byzantine Empire and the Paulicians. The Paulicians were a Christian sect which—****cuted by the Byzantine state—had...
- morphologically identical to the Paulician dialect (Banat Bulgarian dialect). The dialect's name derives from the Paulicians, believed to be the ancestors...
- However, it is not certain that the Paulicians were Dualistic, as in the Key of Truth it is said that: "The Paulicians are not dualists in any other sense...
- Armenia in the 7th century, the Paulicians, throughout Asia Minor. In response, under their then leader Karbeas, the Paulicians fled across the border to the...
- considered they are descendants of native Eastern Orthodox Bulgarians, and Paulicians who also previously converted to Orthodoxy and Catholicism, who converted...
- Roman Catholics, Bulgarian Latin Catholics and Bulgarians Paulicians or simply as Paulicians, are a distinct Bulgarian minority group which since the Chiprovtsi...
- 1898. Conybeare claimed that the text was a servicebook of the medieval Paulicians, and it contains a rite of adult baptism with water and conscious omission...
- the foreign front, he achieved military success against the heretical Paulicians, whom he subjugated in 872. He also pursued an active policy in the west...