Albigenses

Catharism was a name given to a religious sect with gnostic  elements that appeared in the Languedoc region of France in the 11th Century and flourished in the 12th and 13th Centuries. Catharism had its roots in the Paulician movement in Armenia and was also influenced by the Bogomiles with whom the Paulicians eventually merged. They also became influenced by  dualist and perhaps Manichaean beliefs.
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Noun
1. a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism
(synonym) Cathars, Cathari
(hypernym) sect, religious sect, religious order

n. Albigenses, religous sect

n. Albigensian

(n. pl.)
Alt. of Albigeois
  

Albigenses A sect arising in Southern France in the 11th century and opposed by the Roman Catholic Church, which exterminated it in the 13th century. It had affinity with the Catharists and also more distantly with the Paulicians, derivatives of the Eastern Church. The doctrines and the pedigree of the Albigenses show it to be a distant offshoot of Manichaeism, so long the formidable rival of orthodox Christianity in Europe and Asia. There was the characteristic Manichaean dualism and belief in some form of transmigration and metempsychosis. There was, according to some, the Docetic view of Christ -- that his body was a mere appearance, his spirit being the reality. The authority of the Old Testament was not admitted as inspired.