Hypsistarians

A year before his death he expressed an identification with the Hypsistarians, an ancient Jewish-pagan sect of the Black Sea region.

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A year before his death he expressed an identification with the Hypsistarians, an ancient Jewish-pagan sect of the Black Sea region.

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The existence of these Hypsistarians must have been partially responsible for the astounding swiftness of the spread of Christianity in Asia Minor, yet not all of them accepted the new faith, and small communities of monotheists, neither Christians nor

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The statement that Hypsistarians continued to exist till the ninth century, is based on a mistaken interpretation of Nicephorus Const.,

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

No doubt Persius had Hypsistarians in view when he ridiculed such hybrid religionists in Satire v, 179-184, and Tertullian seems to refer to them in "Ad nationes", I, xiii.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Hypsistarians are probably referred to under the name Coelicoloe in a decree of the Emperors Honorius and Theodosius (A.D. 408), in which their places of worship are transferred to the Catholics.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

Hypsistarians or worshippers of the Hypsistos, i.e. of the "Most

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913