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What religious groups did Leo III order to be forcibly baptized in 722?
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Leo III, gold solidus from Constantinople, 717–741.
In 722, Emperor Leo III ordered the forcible baptism of Jews and Montanists, the latter of whom were a Christian heretical group.1