Novatian

Meanings

Proper Noun

• A Roman priest, who became an antipope against St. Cornelius in 251 AD, and considered by the Catholic Church to be a schismatic heresiarch as founder of a Christian sect known as Novatianism

Noun

• A follower of Novatianism.

Adjective

• relating to the heresiarch Novatian (see above) and/or his schismatic sect, Novatianism

Origin

• From Latin Novatius (plausibly via French Novatien).