Excerpt from A History of the Church: From the Earliest Ages to the Reformation A Schism was the consequence 177 A persecution in Gaul by Marcus Antoninus lrenaeus was subsequently Bishop of Lyons Some reasons why the Church of Alexandria was probably nume rous at an early period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.