Novatien

Novatien is the 2nd Antipape of the Histoire of the Catholic church.

One is unaware of his precise origins, undoubtedly is it Roman, but it is a scholar of talent, baptized quickly at the time of a serious disease, which then devotes body and heart to the Church. Against the opinion of his clergy, astonished by a baptism and a so fast conversion, the bishop of Rome Fabien appoints it priest.

At the time of the persecution of the emperor Dèce, whereas intervenes one vacancy of the episcopal see, it is Novatien which as a scholar - he wrote a treaty on the Trinité, the first work of theology in Latin language, and its work is impregnated influence of Virgile and philosophers stoical - maintains the contacts by many letters with the other Churches, those of Africa and Orient, less persecuted. This is why the election of Corneille as bishop of Rome in 251 makes it bitter because it estimates that the station returns to him from right. He shows Corneille of laxism vis-a-vis repented, these Christians who had flanché in front of the Persécution of Dèce and who wished to find the bosom of the church. Novatien finds three bishops Italian who agree to crown it. But the synod of Rome which joins together with the autumn 251 more than 60 bishops validates the election of Crow and excommunicates Novatien. It leaves Rome in 253 following the persecution of Trébonien Galle and the end of its life is unknown. He undoubtedly died towards 258.

This schism is the origin of the Hérésie novatianist, near to the Nestorianisme, which will perdurera during two centuries, with its own clergy, merging starting from the middle of the 4th century with the Donatisme.

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