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Lucifer of Cagliari

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Lucifer of Cagliari (l`sĭfər, kälyä`rē), d. 370, bishop of Cagliari, Sardinia (353–70), violent opponent of Arianism Arianism (âr`ēənĭz'əm), Christian heresy founded by Arius in the 4th cent.
..... Click the link for more information. . As legate of Pope Liberius he went to the council at Milan (355) that Constantius disbanded by exiling the Catholic delegates. Lucifer was bitter against those who seemed to submit to Arianism, and on his return to Sardinia (362) he formed a sect of his own, barring all who had strayed into Arianism at all. His peremptory consecration of a bishop for Antioch (outside his jurisdiction) perpetuated the schism of Meletius Meletius, Saint (mĭlē`shəs), d. 381, Catholic bishop, leader of the Meletian faction in the Antiochene schism.
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