A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Carpocratians

by Hannah Adams

CARPOCRATIANS, a denomination, which arose towards the middle of the second century; so called from Carpocrates, whose philosophical tenets agreed in general with those of the Egyptian Gnostics; but he is charge with licentious principles and conduct.^[1] See Gnostics.

Original footnotes

1. Mosheim, vol. i. p. 184, 185.