and the Melitians. Athanasius responded in his famous anti-Arian tracts Apologia contra Arianos and Historia Arianorum by accusing the Melitians of lying...
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about the Melitians. Alexander died in 328 and Athanasius was elected as bishop or patriarch of Alexandria. A few years later, the Melitians appealed to...
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to join him, such as the Melitians and Manichaeans. Before Pachomius had begun organizing monastic communities, the Melitians as a group were already recruiting...
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in vain; the Melitians joined the Arians and caused more dissension than ever, being among the worst enemies of Athanasius. The Melitians ultimately died...
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Lycopolis in Egypt. He is known mainly as the founder and namesake of the Melitians (c. 305), one of several schismatic sects in early church history which...
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el-Sayed, Egyptian nationalist Melitius of Lycopolis, founder of the Melitians. al-Suyuti, Sunni Muslim theologian who died in 1505 Ali El-Araby, footballer...
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Meletius II of Alexandria) Melitius of Lycopolis, bishop and founder of the Melitians Meletius of Antioch, Saint and Patriarch from 360 to 381 Meletios the...
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theological controversies in which he was involved: The first involved some Melitians who drank wine before Communion, claiming that Jesus had given the disciples...
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of Tyre in 335, he was condemned and exiled for violence against the Melitians in his see. Nonetheless, within a few years of his death, Gregory of Nazianzus...
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Elcesaites Encratites Apotactics Aquarii Severians Johannines Marcionism Melitians Montanism Artotyrite Ascitans Tascodrugites Nazarenes Nicolaism Novatianism...
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