A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Meletians

by Hannah Adams

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

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