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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 Jesus in relationship to the Father: in particular whether Jesus was of the same or of similar substance as God the Father. | | | The Council of Nicaea was historically significant because it was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom. |
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| | The 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. | | | Several days later the emperor commanded that a final session should be held, at which he assisted in order to exhort the bishops to work for the maintenance of peace; he commended himself to their prayers, and authorized the fathers to return to their dioceses. |
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| | First Ecumenical Council - OrthodoxWiki |
| | The council was summoned in the year 325 by the Emperor St. Constantine the Great, who desired unity in the Roman Empire and thus called the Church's bishops together to settle the raging of the heresy of Arianism, the doctrine that Jesus Christ was a created being and therefore not truly the one God. | | | All the bishops at the council signed the Creed except for two, Theonas of Marmarica and Secundus of Ptolemais, who were subsequently deposed by the Church and then exiled by the emperor, along with Arius, who also refused to accept the decrees of the council. | | | St. Athanasius of Alexandria puts the number at 318, which is regarded as a mystically significant number, as in Genesis 14:14, the number of servants whom Abraham (then still named "Abram") took with him to rescue his nephew Lot. |
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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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| | The Ecumenical Councils of Church |
| | In this council, the dogma of the trinity of the Father, Son, and the Holy Ghost was introduced and agreed upon as the church doctrine. | | | The third council proclaimed that "God was born", and this council stated that "God died", and the lord was "crucified in flesh." This council also condemned the critical examination of the Bible by Origen for his deviations as unorthodox. | | | This seventh council finally transformed the monotheistic religion of Jesus Christ to a polytheistic and pagan religion. |
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| | Council Of Nicaea - Ancient Roman Empire Forums |
| | I recall that the council was an attempt to reconcile the Arrian Christians with the Athaniasians; to understand the dual nature of God the Father and Jesus as the Son being One in Being With the Father. | | | Contrary to my previous beliefs about the Council of Nicaea, I have read recently that not only were Christian Bishops invited, but also Priests and representatives of the various Pagan religions. | | | Constantine invited the bishops of all the major Pagan religions of Rome to the Council of Nicaea because he wanted to present officially Christianity like main Roman religion and give Roman Catholic Church more privileges concerning to other religions. |
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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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| | 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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| | MAJOR COUNCILS OF THE CHURCH: (councils.htm) |
| | This Council's main docket was the attempt to reunite with the Eastern Church, but it was only temporary and the schism grew wider after the solidification of the Dogmatic Filioque in which it was reaffirmed emphatically that the Holy Ghost proceeds from both the Father and the Son. | | | Most notable were Doctors of the Chur Saint Gregory Nazianzen and Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, who with the Council Fathers, reaffirmed the First Council of Nicaea and defined the Consubstantiality of the Holy Spirit with the Father and the Son, thereby condeming the heresy of Macedonius. | | | The greatest periti was the Bishop of Alexandria, Saint Athanasius who, amidst his struggles with the Arians, argued convincingly for condemning Arius and, as a deacon, St. Athanasius was at the forefront in defining the Consubstantiality of the Son with the Heavenly Father. |
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| | Nicaea, First Council of on Encyclopedia.com |
| | 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) | | | It has been said that 318 persons attended, but a more likely number is 225, including every Eastern bishop of importance, four Western bishops (among them Hosius of Córdoba, president of the council), and two papal legates. |
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| | The Council of Nicaea (Nicea) and the Bible |
| | 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. | | | The divine and sacred First Ecumenical Council of three hundred and eighteen God-inspired fathers was convened at Nicaea, metropolis of the province of Bithynia. | | | 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. |
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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. | | | 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. | | | 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. |
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| | The Nicene and Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed |
| | Those words were not included by the Council of Nicaea or of Constantinople, but were added later by Roman Catholics, and the Eastern Orthodox churches consider their inclusion to be a heresy. | | | Soon after the Council of Nicaea, new formulas of faith were composed, most of them variations of the Nicene Symbol, to counter new phases of Arianism. | | | At that time, the text ended after the words "We believe in the Holy Spirit." The second Ecumenical Council in 381 added the remainder of the text except for the words "and the son"; this is the version still used by Eastern Orthodox and Greek Catholic churches today. |
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| | Nicaea, First Council of - definition of Nicaea, First Council of by the Free Online Dictionary, Thesaurus and ... |
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