This year is not only the 1,700th anniversary of the first ecumenical council of the church, but also one of the years when ...

Thanks to Dan Brown’s novel, The Da Vinci Code, and its film adaptation, many people think that the books that constitute ...

The Council of Nicaea in 325 AD under the Roman emperor Constantine approved the official "doctrine" of Christianity as a State religion. One of the things Constantine did at the Council of Nicaea, ...

Iznik is preparing to host a historic ceremony to mark the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, a pivotal ...

The First Council of Nicaea (there was a second, 462 years later) was convened by Emperor Constantine in A.D. 325. The bishop of Rome at the time, Sylvester, did not attend the council ...

British Christian leaders, including Cardinal Vincent Nichols, marked the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea as a “breath of hope” for the Church.

Reciting the Creed, Bishop Alberto Rojas of San Bernardino, Calif., leads a group of pilgrims from his diocese in before ...

It is a great educational journey backward historical, cultural, political, religious that helps shed light on the roots of the Christian West, aptly illustrating the turning point desired ...

The Council of Nicaea convened during the pontificate of Pope Sylvester I in 325. The Council of Nicaea in 325 as depicted in a fresco in Salone Sistino at the Vatican. (photo: Giovanni Guerra ...

One significant decision at Nicaea was the date of the celebration of the Feast of the Resurrection, which at that time, and prior to the council was marked at different dates by different church ...

The existing canons of the Council of Nicaea show that no Biblical canon was determined. While at least one Church Father, St. Jerome, noted that one book was determined to be Scripture at the ...