a religious sect, who rose about the beginning of the fourth century; on occasion of the indulgence shown to Arius by Alexander patriarch of Alexandria. Several people being scandalized at so much condescension; and, among the rest, Colluthus, a priest of the same city; he hence took a pretence for holding separate assemblies, and by degrees proceeded to the ordination of priests, as if he had been a bishop; pretending a necessity for this authority, in order to oppose Arius. To his schism he added hereby teaching, that God did not create the wicked; that he was not author of the evils that befall men, &c. He was condemned by a council held at Alexandria by Osius, in the year 330.