The Donatists

ANCIENT BAPTISTS II. The Donatists. The Donatists were named (again, by their enemies) after Donatus, who died in 355 A.D. He was a north African pastor and one of the leaders of the schism that began in Carthage in 311 (over the ordination of Caecilianus as Pastor). It has been said that the Donatists arose only through a personality conflict ... ................
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