The Synod of Skrzynno 24 June 1567 was a synod between the Arians and Socinians among the Antitrinitarian Polish Brethren

Polish Brethren

The Polish Brethren were members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland, a Nontrinitarian Protestant church that existed in Poland from 1565 to 1658...

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From 1550-1563 Calvinists and Arians had met together at the Synods of Pińczów

Synods of Pińczów

The Synods of Pińczów were a series of 22 Calvinist synods held in the town of Pińczów from 1550-1563.At the time of the Reformation Pińczów belonged to a Calvinist nobleman, Nicholas Oleśnicki, and was one of the centers of Calvinism and Arianism in Poland. Synods were held in the former Pauline...

, the final synod in 1563 marking the break between the Calvinist ecclesia maior and the ecclesia minor of the Polish Brethren

Polish Brethren

The Polish Brethren were members of the Minor Reformed Church of Poland, a Nontrinitarian Protestant church that existed in Poland from 1565 to 1658...

. A synod the following year at Piotrków Trybunalski

Piotrków Trybunalski

Piotrków Trybunalski is a city in central Poland with 80,738 inhabitants . It is situated in the Łódź Voivodeship , and previously was the capital of Piotrków Voivodeship...

 in 1564, cemented the separation of Calvinists and Anti-Trinitarians.

At the anti-Trinitarian synod at Węgrów

Wegrów

Węgrów is a town in eastern Poland with 12,561 inhabitants . Situated in the Masovian Voivodeship , it is the capital of Węgrów County.First mentioned in historical records in 1414, it received its citycharter in 1441...

 on December 25, 1565 Georg Schomann

Georg Schomann

Georg Schomann was a Socinian theologian.In his youth, was distinguished by a deep Catholic religiosity. In the years 1552-1554 he studied at the Krakow Academy and then at Wittenberg, where he was Lutheran...

, Matthias Albinus

Matthias Albinus

Maciej Albin or Latin Matthias Albinus was a Polish Calvinist minister at Iwanowice Dworskie who became the first to administer adult baptism in Poland, and then openly Unitarian....

 and Gregory Pauli took positions against Arianism

Arianism

Arianism is the theological teaching attributed to Arius , a Christian presbyter from Alexandria, Egypt, concerning the relationship of the entities of the Trinity and the precise nature of the Son of God as being a subordinate entity to God the Father...

, the belief in the pre-existence of Christ

Pre-existence of Christ

The pre-existence of Christ refers to the doctrine of the ontological or personal existence of Christ before his conception. One of the relevant Bible passages is where, in the Trinitarian view, Christ is identified with a pre-existent divine hypostasis called the Logos or Word...

, marking the beginnings of characteristic Socinian belief (although) Fausto Sozzini did not arrive in Poland till 14 years later in 1579.

The synod of Skrzynno was held at Skrzynno, Masovian Voivodeship

Skrzynno, Masovian Voivodeship

Skrzynno is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Wieniawa, within Przysucha County, Masovian Voivodeship, in east-central Poland...

, not Skrzynno, Łódź Voivodeship. Several divisions among the Polish Brethren were visible but the parties adopted a resolution maintaining an external union based on a unitarian doctrine.