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| | First Council of Nicaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The first Council of Nicaea was the first general gathering of bishops from the whole Church, to resolve differences of faith that had arisen and to define clearly the faith received from the apostles. | | | The purpose of the council (also called a synod) was to resolve disagreements in the church of Alexandria over the nature of the Trinity: in particular whether Jesus was of the same or of similar substance as God the Father. | | | Another result of the council was an agreement on the date of the Christian Passover, now called Easter, the most important feast of the Church's life. |
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| | Second Council of Nicaea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In 786, the council met in the Church of the Apostles in Constantinople. | | | This council is celebrated in the Eastern Orthodox Church as "The Sunday of the Triumph of Orthodoxy" each year on the first Sunday of Great Lent, the fast that leads up to Easter. | | | The papal legates voiced their approval of the restoration of the veneration of icons in no uncertain terms, and the patriarch sent a full account of the proceedings of the council to Hadrian, who had it translated (the translation Anastasius later replaced with a better one). |
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| | During time of Adrian I Nicaea-2 |
| | The aim was to unite the church and to condemn the decrees passed by the council of 338 bishops held at Hiereia and St Mary of Blachernae in 754. | | | It is necessary that the person who is to be advanced to a bishopric should be elected by bishops, as has been decreed by the holy fathers at Nicaea in the canon that says: "It is by all means desirable that a bishop should be appointed by all [the bishops] in the province. | | | But if this is difficult because of some pressing necessity or the length of the journey involved, let at least three come together and perform the ordination, but only after the absent bishops have taken part in the vote and given their written consent. |
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| | 325 Council of Nicaea |
| | Primarily a council's purpose, at least a dogmatic council, is to proclaim with unmistakable clarity a doctrine already a part of the teaching of the Church. | | | The Council's purpose was to bring order to the Church in Alexandia, but in so doing they gave evidence to something which was developing in the Church, namely, listing the metropolitan centers of Christianity and putting them in order of their importance. | | | But at Nicaea there were not a few bishops, well-intentioned and open to the Spirit, who actually would have been hard pressed themselves to give a clear explanation of the relationship of the Son to the Father. |
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| | Council of Nicaea, Nicea |
| | The Second Council of Nicaea, the seventh ecumenical council of the Christian church, was convoked by the Byzantine empress Irene in 787 to rule on the use of saints' images and icons in religious devotion. | | | It was the decision of the council, formalized in the Nicene Creed, that God the Father and God the Son were consubstantial and coeternal and that the Arian belief in a Christ created by and thus inferior to the Father was heretical. | | | The main purpose of the council was to attempt to heal the schism in the church provoked by Arianism. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Second Council of Nicaea |
| | Seventh Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, held in 787. | | | Seven others who had plotted to make the Council miscarry in the preceding year presented themselves and declared themselves ready to profess the Faith of the Fathers, but the assembly thereupon engaged in a long discussion concerning the admission of heretics and postponed their case to another session. | | | However, there was no fraud on their part: they had been sent, not by the patriarchs, but by the monks and priests of superior rank acting sedibus impeditis, in the stead and place of the patriarchs who were prevented from acting for themselves. |
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| | The Council of Nicaea 325 AD WAS a Catholic Council |
| | Sometimes the absurd claim is made that the church of Nicaea in 325 was not the Catholic Church. | | | There exists positive documentary evidence that two representatives of the Pope signed themselves as such in the records of the Council of Nicaea, and Bishop Ossius (Hosius) of Cordoba, who signed ahead of them, was in all probability designated by the Pope to preside over this council. | | | Needless to say, there is no way two priests would have been permitted to preside over a synod of bishops and been allowed to sign the cannons first if they had not been representing the recognized leader of the Catholic Church. |
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| | The Council of Nicea |
| | The Council of Nicea, a gathering similar to the one described in Acts 15:4-22, condemned the beliefs of Arius and wrote the first version of the now famous creed proclaiming that the Son was "one in being with the Father" by use of the Greek word "homoousius." | | | The bishops of the Council stopped their ears on hearing the words of Arius and immediately rejected his teaching as distant and alien from the belief of the Church. | | | It must be concluded, then, that the controversy was between a great majority who held the belief that the doctrine expressed by the Nicene Creed was ancient and Apostolic, and a minority who believed that Arius' new interpretation of the faith was correct. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: First Council of Nicaea |
| | First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, held in 325 on the occasion of the heresy of Arius (Arianism). | | | Sozomen even speaks of a Council of Bithynia which addressed an encyclical to all the bishops asking them to receive the Arians into the communion of the Church. | | | Eusebius speaks of more than 250 bishops, and later Arabic manuscripts raise the figure to 2000 - an evident exaggeration in which, however, it is impossible to discover the approximate total number of bishops, as well as of the priests, deacons, and acolytes, of whom it is said that a great number were also present. |
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| | Pilgrim Church - COUNCIL OF NICAEA |
| | The first general council of the Catholic churches was summoned by Constantine and met at Nicaea in Bithynia (325). | | | Although the decision reached was right, the way of reaching it, by the combined efforts of the Emperor and the bishops, and of enforcing it, by the power of the State, manifested the departure of the Catholic church from the Scripture. | | | The principal question before it was that of the doctrine taught by Arius, a presbyter of Alexandria, who maintained that the Son of God was a created Being, the first and greatest, but yet, consequently, not on an equality with the Father. |
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| | The Council iof Nicaea - H N Bate |
| | The defence in later days (for the debate at Nicaea is not recorded) was that it expressed the mind of Scripture, and that Paul of Samosata had used it in an obviously heretical sense. | | | Determined to bring it to an end, he summoned the bishops of the whole Church to meet in council at Nicaea in Bithynia. | | | At the first this was always settled by local convenience: thus the Paschal question was discussed by the bishops ox Caesarea and Jerusalem with those of Tyre and Ptolemais; and as late as the middle of the third century, we find the bishop of Iconium acting with those of Cappadocia, Galatia, and Cilicia. |
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| | Arianism Versus the Council of Nicaea |
| | At this Council Arianism was condemned, a profession of faith resembling the Alexandrian creed was promulgated and three Bishops who refused to agree with the teaching of this Council were provisionally excommunicated until the Council of Nicaea. | | | This was especially true with the term homoousios (of the same substance) used by the Council to describe the relationship between the Father and the Son. | | | At the Council of Sirmium in 378, with the support of the Western Emperor Gratian, six Arian Bishops were deposed. |
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| | The first council of Nicaea (325 a.d.) |
| | But the main purpose and effect of the First Council of Nicaea was to establish unity of doctrine in the early Christian church and to heal the schism caused by the Arian heresy. | | | In order to heal the schism, Constantine summoned all the bishops of the church to a council at Nicaea in 325. | | | The bishops also issued decrees on a number of other matters, such as the defining the proper method for consecrating bishops, condemning usury (lending money at interest) among clerics, and establishing the primacy of Alexandria and Jerusalem over other sees in their respective areas. |
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| | The Council of Nicaea and the Bible |
| | This holy council attached the term "consubstantial" to the Holy Trinity, fixed the time of the divine and mystical Passover, and set forth the divinely inspired teaching of the Creed against all heretics, Arius, Sabellius, Photinus, Paul of Samosata, Manes, Valentinus, Marcion, and their followers. | | | This mentions that the definitions of Nicaea were drawn up with reference to Scripture; and the argument about whether phrase x or y was or was not in scripture formed the basis of much of the argument. | | | Some people seem to think that the council, which was the first council of all the Bishops of the Christian Church, either invented the New Testament, or edited it to remove references to reincarnation (or whatever) or burned large numbers of heretical works, or whatever. |
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| | Emperor Constantine & the Council of Nicaea |
| | At this council of Nicaea (in 325 A.D.) the precise nature of Christian faith was negotiated, and its relationship to Constantine and his successors established. | | | He seized the initiative from the eastern bishops who had called a smaller council to excommunicate some heretics who didn't believe in the full divinity of Jesus. | | | This creed, still used by most churches as a basic statement of faith, was a result of careful compromise at the Council. |
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| | Rejection of Pascal's Wager: The Arian Controversy |
| | [15] This then, was the man who called a general council in the year 325 to settle the dispute regrading Jesus' divinity. | | | It was around this time that a general council of Christian bishops was called to settle the issue. | | | Several incidents prior to his ascendency to the throne of the Roman Empire in AD324 had convinced Constantine of the efficacy of the Christian religion. |
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: The Second Council of Nicea, 787 |
| | While the council is engaged in considering the canons or matters which have regard to the Gospel, it behoves the assembled Bishops, with all attention and grave thought to guard the divine and life-giving commandments of God, for in keeping of them there is great reward; because our lamp is the commandment, and our l | | | Gibbon thus describes the Seventh Ecumenical Council of the Christian Church: "The decrees were framed by the president (1) Tarasius, and ratified by the acclamations and subscriptions of three hundred and fifty bishops. | | | My simple contention is that the Council is admitted by all to have been representative of East and West, and to have been accepted for a thousand years as such, and to be to-day accepted as Ecumenical by the Latin and Greek Churches. |
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| | Still Fighting Over Nicaea - Christianity Today Magazine |
| | If a Novatian wanted to return to the church's good graces, the Council of Nicaea ruled, all they had to do was to "profess in writing that they will observe and follow the dogmas of the Catholic and Apostolic Church." Novatian priests could stay priests. | | | The Arians, who denied the full divinity of Christ, were spotlighted at the Council of Nicaea, and most of the council's work focused on accurately defining Jesus' nature. | | | Not only are they against the spirit and the letter of Anglican formularies, they are against one of the decrees of the Council of Nicaea, as we point out. |
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| | Pope Silvester & the Council of Nicaea |
| | The idea that the council was called by, presided over by (through representatives), or was merely conditional until ratified by, the bishop of Rome as the head of the church, is a-historical, untenable, and to my knowledge, not promoted by any serious historian in our age. | | | The whole history of the calling of the Council of Nicaea, and the whole history of the Church in the empire for the preceding decade, suggest that Pope Silvester would have designated Ossius for this role. | | | All the successful ecumenical councils of the first six centuries of the Church required the cooperation of both Pope and Emperor, and we know that all the others had that. |
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| | Nicaea, First Council of |
| | The council ruled on other questions as well, attempting to standardize the date of Easter and granting patriarchal authority to the bishop of Alexandria. | | | The Councils of the Church: A Short History.(Review) (Commonweal) | | | Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches: Councils and Treaties |
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| | Saint Nicholas ::: Glossary |
| | First ecumenical council; called to preserve unity of the church which was threatened by competing definitions of Jesus | | | Widely recognized statement of the faith of the Christian church; used every Sunday in several traditions; incorporates essential clauses from the Council of Nicaea (325) | | | Bishop's gold-colored staff, shaped like a shepherd's crook; symbol of office showing that, like the Good Shepherd, bishops are spiritual shepherds to the people; also crosier |
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| | The Ecumenical Council of Nicaea |
| | THE ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, NICAEA A.D. 318 Christian bishops met at the city of Nicaea in the Roman Province of Bithynia in May and June of A.D. 325, at the instigation and under the direction of Constantine I (`The Great') to discuss matters which were disturbing the Church, and thus Constantine's empire. | | | See P. Schaff & H. Wace, A Select Library of Nice and Post- Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church, second series, Volume XII: THE SEVEN ECUMENICAL COUNCILS (1899), 2-42. | | | NOTE: The Paulianists in Canon XIX are followers of Bishop Paul of Samosata, who was made Bishop of Antioch in Syria ca. |
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| | The Council of Nicæa gave the task of calculating the date of Easter to the Church of Alexandria, which was to communicate the result to the pope for further distribution to the Christian communities. | | | But, by the end of the 4th century, 14 Nisan was observed by some sectarians only. | | | In 325, at the Council of Nicæa the date of Easter was fixed by declaring that Easter should be the first Sunday after the first full moon occuring on or after the vernal equinox. |
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| | Medieval Sourcebook: Canons from Nicea 1, 325 |
| | selected from Henry R. Percival, ed.,The Seven Ecumenical Councils of the Undivided Church, Vol XIV of Nicene and Post Nicene Fathers, 2nd series, edd. | | | This text is part of the Internet Medieval Source Book. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Council of Nicaea |
| | This chart lists the 21 ecumenical councils in the history of the Roman Catholic church. | | | Nicaea, Councils of, two ecumenical councils of the Christian church, held at Nicaea (now İznik, Turkey), a city of ancient Bithynia, in Asia Minor. | | | Search for books about your topic, "Council of Nicaea" |
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| | Remarks Concerning the Council of Nicaea |
| | after Nicaea, concerning such, including many other various and different issues not mentioned, as an authoritative source because it is not early church authority or also has manifest errors. | | | One heresy in particular is the Romanist doctrine of idols or representations of things not written: | | | Finance (non-interest-earning procedural implementation) Following the early church example is appropriate, not necessarily the post-early-church example. |
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| | The Council of Nicaea |
| | What posterity has to do is determine - at the Council of Nicaea to what extent was the historical Jesus imbued with existing mythological beliefs to gain a consensus for any proclamation. | | | From the suggested raw material of a passionate spokesperson for what he believed Jesus - politically and morally. |
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| | Council of Nicaea |
| | Constantine thought that to restore peace in the Church, and hence the empire, required the convocation of an ecumenical council. | | | The Council of Nicaea was the first Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church. | | | Finally Constantine, having conquered Licinius and become sole emperor, concerned himself with the re-establishment of religious peace as well as of civil order. |
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