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Wikipedia's article on anathema, formal ecclesiastical excommunication carrying a curse, consulted 2026-08-13.

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Reliability tier 3: a continuously community-edited tertiary reference with no formal peer review process, suitable for citable, checkable factual claims but not treated as authoritative on genuinely contested points.
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Wikipedia's article on anathema, consulted 2026-08-13. Useful here for the Greek and Hebrew etymology, the Council of Elvira, the Synod of Gangra, Cyril of Alexandria's twelve anathemas against Nestorius, the fifth century distinction between anathema and minor excommunication, and the 1983 Code of Canon Law's removal of the term.
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2026
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema
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This source backs 16 claims across the atlas. As facts: 12 well-attested. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.

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  • Doctrines, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 4 general references.
  • Sources, 8 claims: 8 well-attested.

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4

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