The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1809 page)

 
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Paulicians
.

Christian sect prominent in the 7th–11th cents. in Armenia and the east of the Byzantine Empire. According to Gk. sources they were
Manicheans
, and by modern scholars they have often been considered a link in the chain between the early
gnostics
and the Manichees of the Middle Ages. Apart from a period of favour under the
Iconoclast
emperors of the 8th–9th cents., the Paulicians were persecuted in the Empire, and allied themselves with the Muslim power.

 
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(3rd cent.).
Christian heretic. He became bishop of Antioch
c.
260 but was deposed by a synod there in 268 on account of his
Christological
teaching, little of which has survived. The best-attested accusation against Paul is that he taught that Christ was a mere man.

 
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(Pañj
b
, ‘ladder’). Sikh verse. The
pad
s
(sections) of longer poems in the
di
Granth are called pau
s.