Donatus

(c. A.D. 280–355) Magnus Donatus was the leader of a movement in North Africa that believed clergyconsists of the priest, ministers and pastors of Christian churches. In the medieval church this term referred to both regular priest who were monks s... more who had fallen away needed to be rebaptized in order for their priesthood functions to be effective. This controversy embroiled the most of the Churcha term translated from the Greek word “Ecclesia” which means an assembly called together and is sometime translated as a congregation. A church is... more for a couple of centuries. This Donatist Controversyinvolves a controversy arising in Carthage at the beginning of the 4th century and lasted until the 6th century. The dispute centered on the legitimac... more sprang from the embers of the Lapsi Controvery a half century earlier.