Antipope Natalius

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Antipope

Natalius
ChurchAdoptionism
Installedc. 199
Term endedc. 200
PredecessorRoman claimant:
Victor I
Zephyrinus
Antipapal claimant:
Antipapacy established
SuccessorRoman claimant:
Zephyrinus
Antipapal claimant:
Hippolytus of Rome
Opposed toPope Zephyrinus
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Natalius was a figure in early church history who is sometimes considered to be the first antipope of his birthplace of Rome.[1]

The only information about Natalius is a quote from an unnamed earlier writer by Eusebius,[2] telling of a 3rd-century priest who accepted the bishopric of the Adoptionists,[1] which was seen as a heretical group in Rome. Natalius soon repented and tearfully begged Pope Zephyrinus to receive him into communion.[3][4]

According to the accounts, Natalius became the head of this Christian community, due to the influence of the theologians, Asclepiodotus and Theodotus the Younger, disciples of Theodotus of Byzantium. The latter Theodotus had been excommunicated in 190 by Pope Victor I for his teachings, and this caused a schism, albeit of small proportions, within the Church. Theodotus, a leather merchant and a scholar of Greek culture, argued that Jesus was at first an ordinary man, in whom the Logos, God or the Wisdom of God dwelt "as in a temple", as it had been with Moses and the prophets. This had happened at his baptism, when he received the divine grace or adoption (dynamis) and thus became equally divine, his divinity being inferior to that of the Father (God or Logos). This doctrine, called dynamic monarchianism, was both Ebionistic and Adhocianistic.[citation needed]

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  1. ^ a b Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Dix, Gregory; Chadwick, Henry (2013). The Treatise on the Apostolic Tradition of St Hippolytus of Rome, Bishop and Martyr. Routledge. p. xvii. ISBN 9781136101465. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
  2. ^ Historia Ecclesiastica, V, 28
  3. ^ Dictionary of Christian Biography and Literature: Zephyrinus
  4. ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Monarchians – Dynamists, or Adoptionists". Catholic Encyclopedia. Archived from the original on 30 September 2007. Retrieved 3 September 2007.

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