Person
Novatian
mid-third century
Roman presbyter and rigorist rival bishop
Attested. The schism and the treatise are secure.
After the Decian persecution, Novatian opposed easy reconciliation of the lapsed and was consecrated a rival bishop of Rome against Cornelius. His treatise on the Trinity is an important Latin statement that the Son is God. His church order, not that treatise, is what later councils rejected.
Places
Councils
No council in this list names them as a participant.
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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