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Summary
- The last Arian churches we can point to on the map were in Lombard Italy in the seventh century.
- We have found no church alive today that calls itself Arian and whose congregations or clergy anyone outside it has recorded.
- A group has used the name Arian Catholic, but we found no outside record of its clergy, congregations or numbers, and that tells us nothing about the sincerity of anyone who has used the name.
- Britannica counts the teaching of Jehovah’s Witnesses about Christ as a form of Arianism, a name Witnesses do not use for themselves.
- Later groups have been called Arian, such as the Polish Brethren and Henry Montgomery’s party in the Synod of Ulster.
- You can still stand in the Arian Baptistery at Ravenna, which UNESCO lists among that city’s monuments.
- Arius taught that the Son of God had a beginning, and the bishops at Nicaea condemned that teaching in 325.
Bibliography (Click to show)
- The Bible: King James Version, John 1:1, John 1:3 and John 20:28.
- Theodoret, Ecclesiastical History, Book I, translated by Blomfield Jackson, with the letters of Arius and of Alexander of Alexandria and the creed of Nicaea.
- Arianism, Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- Visigoths, Catholic Encyclopedia.
- Early Christian Monuments of Ravenna, UNESCO World Heritage Centre.
- Paul the Deacon, History of the Langobards, Book IV, translated by William Dudley Foulke (1907).
- The Polish Brethren, Culture.pl.
- Kate Newmann, Henry Montgomery, Dictionary of Ulster Biography.
- Non-Subscribing Presbyterian Church of Ireland, Irish Council of Churches.
- What We Believe, Unitarian Universalist Association.
- Why Is Jesus Called the Son of God?, Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Believe in Jesus?, Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- Is Jesus Almighty God?, Jehovah’s Witnesses.
- Godhead, Gospel Topics, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
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