MELETIANS

In Ecclesiastical History, the partisans of Meletius, bishop of Lycopolis in Egypt, deposed in a synod at Alexandria about 306, on the charge of having sacrificed to idols during the persecution by Diocletian. He was supported by numerous adherents; and thus a schism began, which was partially concluded by the submi ion of Arsenius, chief of the party, to A than as i us in 333, but does not seem to have been wholly extinct for 1.50 years. {Mosheim, vol. i.) [s. 742]