BERENGARIANISM, a name applied by ancient ecclesiastical writers to the doctrine of those who deny the actual presence of the body and blood of Christ in the eucharist
Berengario The denomination took its rise from Berengarius, archdeacon of the church of St Mary at Angers, who in the year 1045 publicly maintained the opinion of John Scotus that the bread and wine, even after consecration, do not become the true body and blood of our Lord, but only a figure and sign thereof; which is the distinctive feature of the Protestant doctrine. Berengarius died in 1088.