List of Gnostic sects

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Athinganoi
Bagnolians
Bogomils^[15]
Bosnian Church
Cathars^[16]
Novgorodians - the owners of the Novgorod Codex; it is likely that the owners of the codex were dualistic like the Bogomils
Paulicianism (However the dualism of Paulicianism is not certain)^[17]
Picards (Neo-Adamites)
Tondrakians

^ van Bladel, Kevin (2017). From Sasanian Mandaeans to Ṣābians of the Marshes. Leiden: Brill. doi:10.1163/9789004339460. ISBN 978-90-04-33943-9.

^ Gündüz, Şinasi (1994). "The Knowledge of Life: The Origins and Early History of the Mandaeans and Their Relation to the Sabians of the Qur'ān and to the Harranians". Journal of Semitic Studies Supplement. 3. Oxford University Press: 5. ISBN 0-19-922193-6. ISSN 0022-4480.

^ The followers of the gnostic Satornilus. See Against Satornilus by Epiphanius

^ See Against the Heracleonites by Epiphanius

^ See Against the Ptolemaeans by Epiphanius

^ See Against the Lucianists by Epiphanius

^ The followers of Menander, who led a schism in Simonianism. See Against Menander by Epiphanius

^ See Abelites - Jewish Encyclopedia

^ See Against the Angelics by Epiphanius for a more detailed description.

^ Apparently another name for the Borborites. Epiphanius also references them as a different sect in the Panarion. He mentions them three times in the book. See here [1].

^ A gnostic sect mentioned in the Panarion, Against the Nicolaitans, 2,1 They be identified as the Borborites.

^ Another name for the Gnostics according to Epiphanius. It may be a different Gnostic sect altogether. See Proem I, 5,4

^ Blunt. Pg. 109. "Cleobians"

^ See Against the Secundians by Epiphanius

^ Livingstone, Elizabeth A. (2013). The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199659623.

^ Wakefield, Walter L.; Evans, Austin P. (1991). Heresies of the High Middle Ages. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 159–173.

^ Conybeare, Frederick. The Key of Truth. A Manual of the Paulician Church of Armenia.

^ Buckley, Jorunn Jacobsen (2002). The Mandaeans: ancient texts and modern people. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-515385-5. OCLC 65198443.

^ See Churchsmsj.org for more information

^ See [2] for more information

^ See Essenes.com for more information

Blunt, John Henry. Dictionary of Sects, Heresies, Ecclesiastical Parties, and Schools of Religious Thought. Rivingtons. 1874.

List of Gnostic sects

Contents

Ancient

Proto-Gnosticism

Judean-Israelite Gnosticism

Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

Persian Gnosticism

Unclassified Christian Gnosticism

Others

Middle Ages

Modern era

Neo-Gnostic

Footnotes

References

Languages