The Synod of Skrzynno 24 June 1567 was a synod between the Arians and Socinians among the Antitrinitarian Polish Brethren.
From 1550-1563 Calvinists and Arians had met together at the Synods of Pińczów, the final synod in 1563 marking the break between the Calvinist ecclesia maior and the ecclesia minor of the Polish Brethren. A synod the following year at Piotrków Trybunalski in 1564, cemented the separation of Calvinists and Anti-Trinitarians.
At the anti-Trinitarian synod at Węgrów on December 25, 1565 Georg Schomann, Matthias Albinus and Gregory Pauli took positions against Arianism, the belief in the pre-existence of Christ, marking the beginnings of characteristic Socinian belief (although) Fausto Sozzini did not arrive in Poland till 14 years later in 1579.
The synod of Skrzynno was held at Skrzynno, Masovian Voivodeship, not Skrzynno, Łódź Voivodeship.[1][2][3] Several divisions among the Polish Brethren were visible but the parties adopted a resolution maintaining an external union based on a unitarian doctrine.[4] [5]
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- ^ Lech Szczucki Marcin Czechowic, 1532-1613: studium z dziejów antytrynitaryzmu 1964 "Synod zmienił się w burzliwy sejmik i kierownictwo zborowe musiało przerwać obrady, przy czym „za ogólną zgodą zapowiedzieli synod na dzień 24 czerwca do Skrzynna "
- ^ Walerian Krasiński Historical Sketch of the Rise, Progress, and Decline of the Reformation in Poland 1840 Volume 2 - Page 357 reprint p166 "The synod of Skrzynna, which assembled in the same year, and was attended by a great many ministers and eminent noblemen, in addition to a great number of other persons, exhibited a strong division Division amongst the between the two ..."
- ^ Robert Wallace, Antifrinitarian Biography (1850) Volume 1 - Page xlv reprint p240 "He assisted at the Synod of Skrzynna in 1567; and many other assemblies of the same kind. ... that he attended the Synod at Skrzynna in 1567, in the capacity of a Notary or Scribe, on behalf of the Arian party."
- ^ Michael J. Anuta Czudnochowski The beautiful people, 2000
- ^ Johann Karl Ludwig Gieseler, Samuel Davidson, John Winstanley Hull A Text-book of Church History: A.D. 1517-1648, The Reformation and ... 1876