Apollliarians, an heretical sect, founded about 302 by Apollinaris, bishop of Laodicea, who, in his zeal against the Arians, sought to impress the following modifications on the Nicene creed: 1. That since two perfect beings cannot coalesce in one person without the production of a monster, therefore in the nature of Christ is not found the union of perfect God with perfect man. 2. That there is no human voice or rational soul in Christ, the divine, or perfect God, standing in place of it. 3. That there is but one nature in Christ, and that has both a divine and human side, and the connection between them is so organic that they may each be regarded as vested with the attributes of the other. Apollinaris was censured by the councils of Alexandria and Constantinople, and Athanasius appeared as his antagonist, lie died about 390. His doctrine is one of the steps in that great movement which springs out of the discussion of the dual nature of Christ, and which next reappeared in Mono-physitism, into which many of the followers of Apollinaris naturally fell, while others returned to the communion of the church.