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The Simonians were a Gnostic sect of the 2nd century which regarded Simon Magus as its founder and traced its doctrines, known as Simonianism, back to him. The sect flourished in Syria, in various districts of Asia Minor and at Rome. In the 3rd century remnants of it still existed, which survived until the 4th century.[1][2]
- ^ Origen, Contra Celsum, I, 57; VI, 11.
- ^ Bruce (1989). "Simonianism and Samaritanism in the Second and Third Centuries A.D.". In Alan David Crown (ed.). The Samaritans. Mohr Siebeck. pp. 43–50. ISBN 978-3-16-145237-6.