# List of Gnostic sects

The following is a list of sects involved in Gnosticism:

## Ancient
### Proto-Gnosticism

* Thomasines

### Judean-Israelite Gnosticism

* Elkesaites
* Kentaeans
* Mandaeism
* Samaritan Baptist sects

### Syrian-Egyptic Gnosticism

* Bardesanites
* Basilidians
* Hermeticism
* Satornilians
* Sethians
* Valesians
* Valentinianism
** Heracleonites
** Ptolemaeans

### Persian Gnosticism

* Manichaeism
** Al-Dayhuri's Sect
** Albanenses
** Astati
** Audianism
** Shinang's Sect

### Unclassified Christian Gnosticism

* Cerdonians
** Marcionism
*** Apelliacos
*** Lucianists
* Colorbasians
* Dositheans (could be offshoot of Simonianism or proto-Gnostic)
* Justinians
* Simonians
** Menandrians

### Others

* Abelonians
* Agapetae
* Alogians
* Angelici
* Antitactae
* Aquarii
* Archontics
* Ascodroutes
* Barbeliotae
* Borborites
** Coddians (also called Koddians)
** Levitics (also called Levitici)
** Phibionites
** Stratiotici
* Cainites
* Carpocratians
* Cerinthians
** Adamites (also called Adamians)
** Marcellianas
* Cleobians
* Docetae
* Elcesaites
* Encratites
** Apotactics (also called Apostolics)
** Severians
* Marcosians
* Messalians
* Nicolaism
* Ophites
** Naassenes
** Perates
* Priscillianism
* Quintillians, Montanist sect that may have come under Gnostic influence
* Secundians
* Seleucians

## Middle Ages

* Athinganoi
* Bagnolians
* Bogomils
* Bosnian Church
* Cathars
** Black Brotherhood
** Credentes
** Pasagians
** Pataria
* 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)
* Neo-Adamites
* Tondrakians

## Modern era

* Mandaeism

### Neo-Gnostic

* Angelici Christian Church
* Anthroposophy
* The Church of St Mary & St John
* Ecclesia Gnostica
* Ecclesia Gnostica Apostolica
* Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica
* Ecclesia Gnostica Mysteriorum
* Ecclesia Pistis Sophia
* Eglise Gnostique
* Gnostic Society
* Holy Order of Mans (Quasi-Gnostic)
* Johannite Church
* Liberal Catholic Union
* Martinism
* Muckers
* Neo-Luciferian Church
* Order of the Nazorean Essenes (influenced by Gnosticism)
* Rosicrucianism
* Samael Aun Weor
* Society of Novus Spiritus
* Theosophy
* The Gnostic Catholic Union

## Footnotes

* ↑ 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 .
* ↑ 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 for more information
* ↑ See Essenes.com for more information