Colluthians
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In early Christianity, the Colluthians were a religious sect who arose about the beginning of the 4th century, on occasion of the mildness and indulgence shown to Arius by Alexander, Patriarch of Alexandria.
Several people being scandalized at so much condescension, and among the rest Colluthus, a priest of the same city, took a pretence for holding separate assembles, and by degrees proceeded to the ordination of priests—as if he had been a bishop—claiming a necessity for this authority, in order to oppose Arius.
His following was deemed heretical for teaching that the Christian god did not create the wicked, that he was not author of the evils that befall men, etc. He was condemned in a council held at Alexandria by Hosius of Córdoba, in the year 335.
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