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Priscillianist
Priscillianist Pris*cil"lian*ist, n. (Eccl. Hist.) A follower of Priscillian, bishop of Avila in Spain, in the fourth century, who mixed various elements of Gnosticism and Manicheism with Christianity.

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- Priscillian (in Latin: Priscilli****; Gallaecia, c. 340 – Augusta Treverorum, Gallia Belgica, c. 385) was a wealthy nobleman of Roman Hispania who promoted...
- Priscillianism was a Christian sect developed in the Roman province of Hispania in the 4th century by Priscillian. It is derived from the Gnostic doctrines...
- Metzger and others. Priscillian was probably a Sabellianist or Modalist Monarchian. Some interpreters have theorized that Priscillian created the Comma...
- leader, Priscillian. The First Council of Saragossa had forbidden several of Priscillian's practices (albeit without mentioning Priscillian by name)...
- Trier from around 386 to 398. His episcopate was marked by the trial of Priscillian and his followers and their subsequent execution for heresy and witchcraft...
- of heresy by the Emperor, the first Christian heretic to be executed, Priscillian, was condemned in 386 by Roman secular officials for sorcery, and put...
- Archbishop Patronus with its primary purpose to condemn the Priscillian heresy, to receive back Priscillians, and uphold the Nicene Creed. Eighteen other Hispanic...
- Gaul p****ed through three crises in the late Roman period, Arianism, Priscillianism and Pelagianism. Under Merovingian rule, a number of "Frankish synods"...
- Although the Suebi and Visigoths were initially followers of Arianism and Priscillianism, they adopted Catholicism from the local inhabitants. St. Martin of...
- certain Mark from Memphis. Jerome was of the opinion that Priscillian, the founder of Priscillianism, was influenced by "the heresy of Basilides". The descriptions...