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This caused a huge rift in the North African Christian community that became known as the Donatist controversy, named after a Carthaginian bishop named Donatus who led the movement.

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A fierce critic of the Donatist view, Augustine was determined to wipe it out.

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The man who ultimately brought an end to the Donatist rift was one of Christianity’s most influential thinkers, Augustine of Hippo.

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By this time, the Donatist controversy had been roiling North Africa for approximately a century.

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The Donatists had given him trouble enough over a disputed election in Africa, and he did not want a worse than Donatist quarrel in Egypt.

From The Arian Controversy by Gwatkin, Henry Melvill