| A fourth part of the Donatist bishops followed the independent standard of the Maximianists. |
| The Donatist heresy with its deplorable results arose on the question of the eligibility of an individual bishop. |
| The donatist heresy claimed that sacraments were impaired if the person performing them was heretical or unorthodox. |
| The Donatist controversy sprang out of the Diocletian persecution in the beginning of the century. |
| The Donatist treatises have met with little attention from individual editors. |
| The notion that clergy could be holy was rejected with the settlement of the Donatist controversy. |
