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Donatist (noun): An adherent of Donatism, a Christian sect that originated in North Africa in the fourth century and opposed the mainstream Roman Catholic Church
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- One of a group of Christians in fourth-century North Africa who broke away as a group after opposing the appointment of Caecilianus as Bishop of Carthage, and who disputed the validity of baptisms performed by others.
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Some towns had Donatist and orthodox congregations.
It was one of the key cities of the Donatist controversy.
A fourth part of the Donatist bishops followed the independent standard of the Maximianists.
It seem the city did not have at Donatist bishops at that time.
A Donatist bishop boasted that he had reduced four churches to ashes with his own hand.
There appears to have been no Donatist bishop at this time.
Donatist Christianity blended with local African religious practices and beliefs.
Of this dioceses only two Donatist bishops are known.
The Benedict option does not automatically imply the arrogance that Augustine perceived in Donatist attitudes.
The difficulties at Carthage which led to the Donatist schism provide us with another instance.
The Donatist schism occurs in the African church.
And the young ruffian did really go over to the Donatist party.
The town became a center of the Donatist controversy when Donatus Magnus visited the town.
At that time the Utimmira had no Donatist bishops.
The Donatist split occurs in the African church.
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Founder of the schismatic heretical Donatist movement Ianvarianus fl.
Afterwards the Donatist controversy over readmitting lapsed Christians disaffects many in North Africa.
See hereinabove at subsection Donatist schism.
The Donatist ranks were divided, but zeal for their cause had by no means abated.
It is called the Donatist heresy.
Further, the Donatist church splintered into two main groups, reducing its effectiveness as a church.
He oppressed the Donatist view.
The Donatist Church was forbidden ; its followers forced to convert to Catholicism.
Optatus then mocks at the recent succession of Donatist antipopes at Rome.
Outside Carthage, Donatist churches and clergy were undisturbed.
The Church was affected by the Donatist schism.
Bay in a house by the Donatist bishop Crispinus, he defended himself.
On that occasion Casae Calanae had no Donatist bishop.
This issue caused the Donatist and Novatianist schisms.
A Donatist bishop of the see assisted at the Council of Carthage 411.
During late antiquity the city had both a Donatist and Catholic congregation.
Ecclesiology = = = Augustine developed his doctrine of the Church principally in reaction to the Donatist sect.
At the Council of Carthage the Donatist bishop Donatian was an attendee.
In 316, he acted as a judge in a North African dispute concerning the Donatist controversy.
Hippo the Donatist schism.
St. Augustine appealed to the Imperial [ Roman ] authority to suppress the Donatist schism by force.
When in controversy with Catholics, the Donatist bishops were not proud of their supporters.
His successor, Theodosius I, also failed to solve the Donatist schism.
Throughout North Africa as a whole, Donatist sympathizers still greatly outnumbered the Catholics.
He used the Church 's resources to attack the leaders of the Donatist " heresy . ".
First, the donatist controversy.
The conference was a great success for the Church, as many Donatist followers were converted.
The Donatist schism had a hold in the city around 411.
Location of Carthage, center of the Donatist controversy.
His Donatist opponent was Primianus, who had succeeded Parmenianus in about 391.
In order of succession not a Donatist bishop is to be found . ”.
In 388 Optatus was elected Bishop of Thamugadi, the most important Donatist bishopric in southern Numidia.
In this order of succession no Donatist bishop is too be found . ".
In this order of succession no Donatist bishop is found . ”.
