In Christian theology, a heresiarch (also hæresiarch, according to the Oxford English Dictionary; from Greek: , hairesiárkhēs via the late Latin haeresiarchaCross and Livingstone, Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church 1974) or arch-heretic is an originator of heretical doctrine or the founder of a sect that sustains such a doctrine. In his Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri represents the heresiarchs as being immured in tombs of fire in the Sixth Circle of Hell. In Cantos IX and... more
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