McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Achillas (2)

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McClintock Biblical Encyclopedia: Achillas (2)


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one of the Alexandrian clergy, a friend and partisan of Arius, with whom he was excommunicated, about 319. Contemporaries speak of him as a prime mover of Arianism. Jerome (Adv. Lucif. XX, 2, 193) calls him a “lector;" while others speak of him as deacon and presbyter.