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Novatian

220 - 258

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Novatian (Greek: Νοβατιανός, Latin: Novatianus, c. 200 – c. 258) was a scholar, priest, and theologian. He is considered by the Catholic Church to have been an antipope between 251 and 258. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Novatian has received more than 178,597 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Novatian is the 607th most popular writer (down from 571st in 2019), the 250th most popular biography from Turkey (down from 244th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Turkish Writer.

Novatian was a Christian theologian and a presbyter in Rome during the 3rd century AD. He is most famous for his Novatianist theology, which taught that those who committed apostasy and then repented should not be readmitted to communion.

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  • 39

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  • 9.61

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  • 2.34

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Novatian ranks 607 out of 5,755Before him are Anton Makarenko, John Donne, Ludwig Tieck, Anne Rice, Walther von der Vogelweide, and Ivar Aasen. After him are Alexander Herzen, Hermann Broch, Harry Martinson, Al-Zamakhshari, Bai Juyi, and Karl Kraus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 220, Novatian ranks 2Before him is Saint Christopher. After him are Herennius Etruscus, Quintillus, Odaenathus, and Aureolus. Among people deceased in 258, Novatian ranks 4Before him are Saint Lawrence, Pope Sixtus II, and Cyprian. After him are Eugenia of Rome and Zhuge Dan.

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In Turkey

Among people born in Turkey, Novatian ranks 250 out of 1,301Before him are Ali ibn al-Athir (1160), Niketas Choniates (1155), Isidore of Miletus (442), Arcesilaus (-315), Xenocrates (-396), and Theophanes the Confessor (758). After him are John IV Laskaris (1250), Gregory Thaumaturgus (213), Eumenes II (-221), Eumenes (-362), Alexander of Aphrodisias (200), and Hümaşah Sultan (1540).

Among WRITERS In Turkey

Among writers born in Turkey, Novatian ranks 11Before him are Orhan Pamuk (1952), Anna Komnene (1083), Dionysius of Halicarnassus (-60), Ammianus Marcellinus (330), Yunus Emre (1240), and Giorgos Seferis (1900). After him are Theodore the Studite (759), Aratus (-315), Zosimus (460), André Chénier (1762), Artemidorus (200), and Ibn Hawqal (943).