A Dictionary of All Religions and Religious Denominations/Aerians

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AERIANS, a denomination which arose about the year 342. They were so called from one Aerius, a monk, and Semi-Arian. He opposed episcopacy, prayers for the dead, stated fasts and feasts, &c.[1]


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  1. Mosheim, vol. i, p. 314.