The Valentinians were a sect of Gnostics, They were named after Valentinus, a priest of Alexandria, who was excommunicated in Rome, acquired a reputation as a philosophical theologian, and died in Cyprus about 160. He was one of the first to attempt the formation of a syncretistic theosophy by amalgamating Judaism and Christianity with the theogonies and philosophy of ancient Greece and the Orient. Fragments only of his writings are preserved, what is known of him being gathered from the works of Irenaeus, Hippolytus, Tertullian, and Clement of Alexandria. Research Valentinians
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