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division in the church of Egypt is known as the Melitian Schism, to be distinguished from the Meletian Schism later that same century. Melitius advocated...

to the theological controversy between Alexander and Arius was the Melitian schism in the Alexandrian church. Melitius, bishop of Lycopolis, had acted...

to be living martyrs. Later, during what would become known as the Melitian Schism when the church became divided in Alexandria over who was the rightful...

separate sect until the fifth century. According to Scott T. Carroll, The Melitian Schism: Coptic Christianity and the Egyptian Church, Ph.D. diss., Miami University...

the schisms of Christianity's first 300 years including the Montanists, the schism created by Hippolytus in 218 under Callistus, the Melitian schism, and...

assumed that our Arius is the same as the Arius who was involved in the Melitian schism, "who had an outward appearance of piety, and ... was eager to be a...

violence against the Melitians, deposed from being archbishop of Alexandria, and excommunicated. We must distinguish the ‘Melitian Schism’ early in the fourth...

after the Tyrian settlement fell apart. Scott T. Carroll (1989), The Melitian Schism: Coptic Christianity and the Egyptian Church (PhD diss., Miami University)...

Lycopolis – bishop of Lycopolis in Egypt. Founder and namesake of the Melitians, who refused to receive in communion those Christians who had renounced...

theological controversies in which he was involved: The first involved some Melitians who drank wine before Communion, claiming that Jesus had given the disciples...

Elcesaites Encratites Apotactics Aquarii Severians Johannines Marcionism Melitians Montanism Artotyrite Ascitans Tascodrugites Nazarenes Nicolaism Novatianism...

collection of sects he calls Marcianists and also the Melitians, who he says commit no error but schism. His list of Marcianists includes Messalians, Euchites...

those who had remained "pure". Certain schisms, like those of the Donatists in North Africa and the Melitians in Egypt, persisted long after the persecutions...

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...

Moses succeeded in bring back into the church some Melitians, remnants of a 4th-century schism. Under Patriarch Mina I (767–774), Moses fought to keep...

lapsi) and those who had held firm. Certain schisms, like those of the Donatists in North Africa and the Melitians in Egypt, persisted long after the persecutions...