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No, Gnosticism is far wider than Christo-Gnostic groups who were very diverse doctrinally from each other
The One Holy Catholic Apostolic Orthodox Christian Church blossomed as the Nicene Trinitarian Incarnation-believing Church not as a gnostic one or umbrella group and all its institutions, dogmas, sacraments, etc were there in seed from the beginning of Christianity
The R Catholic and E Orthodox split around 1054Ad and the Oriental "Monophysite"Orthodox around 451AD and the Assyrian/ Persian/Far eastern 'Nestorian"around 431AD or later
Christo-Gnosticism has had revivals ( as with the Cathars) and grew in the late 19Th a ND early 20 Th cent (with Theosophy, Christian Science, etc)
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