Person
Meletius of Lycopolis
early fourth century
Leader of a rigorist schism in Egypt
Attested. The schism and the Nicene settlement are documented.
During the Great Persecution Meletius ordained clergy outside his own district and refused the milder policy of Peter of Alexandria toward the lapsed. Nicaea tried to limit his movement without simply erasing it. The Egyptian Meletius is not Meletius of Antioch, a different bishop later in the century.
Places
Councils
- Nicaea (325)
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this biography. The confidence note is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Catalog editions
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