Patipassians

Patipassians (Lat. pater, 'father,' and passus, 'suffered'), a name given to one of the earliest classes of anti-Trinitarian sectaries (2d century), who, in maintaining the oneness of the Godhead, were said by their enemies to believe that, as it was true to say that Jesus, in whom dwelt the Logos, or the Son, suffered, therefore it would be true to say that the Father suffered. Their principles are in the main the same with those of the Sabellians (q.v.).