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Donatist

A Dictionary of World History | 2000 | 249 words | Copyright

Donatist A member of a Christian sect that arose in North Africa in 311 AD out of a dispute about the election of the bishop of Carthage, and which maintained that it was the only true and pure Church and that the ordinations of others were invalid.

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