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Nicaea (also spelled Nicæa or Nicea, / n aɪ ˈ s iː ə / ny-SEE-ə; [9] Latin: [niːˈkae̯.a]), also known as Nikaia (Ancient Greek: Νίκαια, Attic: [nǐːkai̯a], Koine:), was an ancient Greek city in the north-western Anatolian region of Bithynia [4] [10] [11] that is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea (the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in ...
The First Council of Nicaea (/ n aɪ ˈ s iː ə / ny-SEE-ə; Ancient Greek: Σύνοδος τῆς Νίκαιας, romanized: Sýnodos tês Níkaias) was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I. The Council of Nicaea met from May until the end of July 325.
The new (2016) Russian version of the Acts of the Council is a revised version of the translation made by Kazan Theological Academy, specifying the cases of corruption by the Orthodox translators. [20] There are several dozens of such cases, some of them are critical. Price, Richard, ed. (2018a). The acts of the Second Council of Nicaea (787). Vol.
Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine (centre), accompanied by the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325), holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical councils include the following: the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Council of Constantinople in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Council of Chalcedon ...
The Acts of the Apostles records, without using for it the term "council" or "synod", what has been called the Council of Jerusalem: to respond to a consultation by Paul of Tarsus, the apostles and elders of the Church in Jerusalem met to address the question of observance of biblical law in the early Christian community, which included Gentile converts. [8]
Marcus of Calabria (fl. 325) was a fourth-century Roman bishop and delegate to the first Council of Nicaea. [1] [2] Little is known of his life career or Episcopal work, and he would have remained largely unknown to history except that he was one of only five delegates from the Catholic Western Roman Empire to attend first Council of Nicaea. [3 ...
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The First Council of Constantinople declared this belief heretical, as did the First Council of Nicaea. Macedonianism – also known as Pneumatomachi; an anti-Nicene Creed sect which flourished in the countries adjacent to the Hellespont during the latter half of the fourth, and the beginning of the fifth century. They denied the divinity of ...