biography
pronunciation:
[prisilian]
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| lived:
| (c.340–385)
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| biography:
| Christian bishop, born in Trier, Gaul (modern Germany). He was excommunicated by a synod at Saragossa in 380, then tolerated, but ultimately executed - the first case of capital punishment for heresy in the history of the Church. The Prisicillian doctrine, said to have been brought to Spain from Egypt, contained Gnostic and Manichaean elements, and was based on dualism. |
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