heresiarch
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thumb|In this Gustave Dore engraving, Dante and Virgil speak to a Heresiarch trapped within a burning tomb. Dante placed arch-heretics in the Sixth Circle of Hell.
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- List of heresiarchs
- Dante's Inferno
- See also
- References
thumb|In this Gustave Dore engraving, Dante and Virgil speak to a Heresiarch trapped within a burning tomb. Dante placed arch-heretics in the Sixth Circle of Hell.
In Christian theology, a heresiarch (also hæresiarch, according to the Oxford English Dictionary; from Greek: , hairesiárkhēs via the late Latin haeresiarcha) or arch-heretic is an originator of heretical doctrine or the founder of a sect that sustains such a doctrine.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “heresiarch” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.