A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Meletians

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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]


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