A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Meletians


MELETIANS, the followers of Meletius, an Egyptian bishop, who, being deposed for sacrificing to idols, affected great seveirity against apostates, and like the Novatians refused to re-admit them after their repentance.[1]


Original footnotes edit

  1. Mosheim, vol. i. p. 384, 385, new ed.