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heresiarch
(religion) The founder of a heresy, or a major ecclesiastical proponent of such a heresy.
📑 Synonyms:
arch-heretic
💬 Quotations
Arius, warring his life long upon the consubstantiality of the Son with the Father, and Valentine, spurning Christ’s terrene body, and the subtle African heresiarch Sabellius who held that the Father was Himself His own Son.
Nicholas agreed but, to bring the proceedings to an end and enable him to perform his salvatory mission, he swung into a cabaletta which summed up the argument against Anus and then, fired, struck the heresiarch a knockdown blow.