Maciej Albin or Latin Matthias Albinus (

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1570s) was a Polish Calvinist minister at

Iwanowice Dworskie Iwanowice Dworskie is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Iwanowice, within Kraków County, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, in southern Poland. It lies approximately south-east of Iwanowice and north of the regional capital Kraków ...

who became the first to administer

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in Poland, and then became openly Unitarian. He differed from the Calvinists and many of the

Arians Arianism ( grc-x-koine, Ἀρειανισμός, ) is a Christological doctrine first attributed to Arius (), a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt. Arian theology holds that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, who was begotten by Go ...

Pińczów Pińczów is a town in southern Poland, in Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship, about 40 km south of Kielce. It is the capital of Pińczów County. Population is 12,304 (2005). Pińczów belongs to the historic Polish province of Lesser Poland, a ...

in denying the

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. And at the

Synod of Skrzynno 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 ...

in 1567 stood with

Georg Schomann Georg Schomann (Polish ''Jerzy Szoman'') (Racibórz 1530 - Chmielnik 1591) was a Socinian (Unitarianism, Unitarian) theologian. In his youth, was distinguished by a deep Catholic religiosity. In the years 1552-1554 he studied at the Kraków Academy ...

Gregory Pauli Grzegorz Paweł z Brzezin (English: Gregory Paul of Brzeziny, Latin: Gregorius Paulus Brzezinensis) (1525–1591), was a Socinian ( Unitarian) writer and theologian, one of the principal creators and propagators of radical wing of the Polish Brethre ...

and Marcin Czechowic among the Polish Brethren. Although the term Socinian is anachronistic, he was counted among Socinian authors by Christopher Sandius. Robert Robinson's ''Ecclesiastical Researches'' (1792) incorrectly states that Albinus was a Trinitarian till the end of his life but this is contradicted by

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, ''Historia Antitrinitarianorum''. Robert Wallace, ''Sketches of the lives and writings of distinguished antitrinitarians - Page 239'' 1850 "Matthias Albinus continued a Trinitarian till his death ; but Bock has included him in his supplementary list of ...

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