Roman Catholic Traditional

  Montanus with his followers Montanism was an  early Heretic movement  of the  late 2nd century , later referred to by the name of its founder,  Montanus . This Heresy  called for a reliance on the spontaneity of the  Holy Spirit  and a more conservative personal ethic. Montanism originated in  Phrygia , a province of  Anatolia , and flourished throughout the region,   leading to the movement being referred to elsewhere as  Cataphrygian  (meaning it was "from Phrygia") or simply as  Phrygian .   They were sometimes also called  Pepuzians  after the town of  Pepuza , which they regarded as the  new Jerusalem . Sometimes the Pepuzians were distinguished from other Montanists for despising those not living in the new Jerusalem.   The Montanist movement spread rapidly to other regions in the  Roman Empire  under Antipope Natalius who supported this Movement with Dynamic Monarchiani...

The Monarchians properly so-called (Modalists) exaggerated the oneness of the Father and the Son so as to make them but one Person; thus the distinctions in the  Holy Trinity  are energies or modes, not Persons:  God the Father  appears on earth as  Son ; hence it seemed to their opponents that Monarchians made the Father suffer and die. In the West they were called Patripassians, whereas in the East they are usually called Sabellians. The first to visit  Rome  was probably  Praxeas , who went on to Carthage some time before 206-208; but he was apparently not in reality a heresiarch, and the arguments refuted by  Tertullian  somewhat later in his book  "Adversus Praxean"  are doubtless those of the Roman Monarchians .  By the Patripassians this first principle was used to deny the Trinity, and they are with some reason called Monarchians . The first founder of the  sect  was a leather-seller of Byzantium named T...