Spiritual Personalities

- The founder of an early Gnostic sect from the first half of the second century.

- The leader of a late first-century or early 2nd century sect, an offshoot of the Ebionites yet similar to Gnosticism.

- A major 2nd century Early Christian theologian, founder of what would later be called Marcionism.

- The best known and for a time most successful Early Christian Gnostic theologian.