Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP In this Gustave Dore engraving, Dante and Virgil speak to a Heresiarch trapped within a burning tomb. Dante placed arch-heretics in the Sixth Circle of Hell. In Christian theology, a heresiarch (also hæresiarch , according to the Oxford English Dictionary ; from Greek: αἱρεσιάρχης , hairesiárkhēs via the late Latin haeresiarcha [1] ) or arch-heretic is an originator of heretical doctrine, or the founder of a sect that sustains such a doctrine. [1] Contents 1 Examples 2 Dante's Inferno 3 See also 4 References Examples Marcion, the founder of Marcionism Arius, the founder of Arianism St Augustine refers to Mani, the founder of Manichaeism, as a heresiarch. [2] Some traditionalist Catholics, such as Hilaire Belloc, consider Martin Luther, John Calvin, and other leaders of the Protestant Reformation to be arch-heretics. [3] Conversely, some fundamentalist Protestants (including Alex...