Adherents of the Bosnian church was not only a simple people, but also many notable secular feudal lords and even some bans. The example of Bosnia during this period suggests that historically there was a State with a predominantly frankly Gnostic religion, and that this State was Slavic (Serbian), and its ideological origins should be sought in post-Byzantine Bulgaria, and then to the Paulicians, Manichaeans, and, perhaps, , And to the early Christian Gnostics.