Heresiarch Definition

hə-rēzē-ärk, hĕrĭ-sē-
noun
The founder or head of a heresy or heretical sect.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Heresiarch

Noun

Singular:
heresiarch
Plural:
heresiarchs

Origin of Heresiarch

  • From Ecclesiastical Latin haeresiarcha, from ecclesiastical Medieval Greek ἁιρεσιάρχης (hairesiarkhēs, “leader of a sect”), corresponding to heresy +‎ -arch.

    From Wiktionary

  • Late Latin haeresiarcha from Late Greek hairesiarkhēs Greek hairesis sect heresy Greek -arkhēs -arch

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Heresiarch Sentence Examples

  • Father Cahier would even trace the book to Tatian, and it is true that that heresiarch mentions a writing of his own upon animals.

  • In 1125 the Church in the south of Russia had to combat another heresiarch named Dmitri.

  • Soon afterwards the heresiarch was arrested, brought before the bishop of Toulouse, and probably imprisoned for life.

  • His first encounter was with the heresiarch Gottschalk, whose predestinarian doctrines claimed to be modelled on those of St Augustine.

  • At the council of Frankfort in 794 Alcuin upheld the orthodox doctrine, and obtained the condemnation of the heresiarch Felix of Urgel.

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