Paul Samosata, so called as born at Samosata, on the Euphrates, a heresiarch who denied the doctrine of three persons in one God, was bishop of Antioch, under the sway of Zenobia, but deposed on her defeat by Aurelian in 272.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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