and it is one of the reasons why the Council of Nicaea has pride of place in church history, along with the Council of Chalcedon, in the estimation of most Christian historians and theologians.

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 ...

One user partially wrote, “• The Council of Nicaea (325 AD) decided which books were included in Western canon. • Many books were removed or changed to fit the new Church…” There is no ...

COMMENTARY: The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But unity around the great feast of the Resurrection remains incomplete.

Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325) holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. (Credit: Wikipedia.) Listen LEICESTER, United ...

The Nicene Creed, which emerged from the Council of Nicaea, remains a foundational declaration of Christian faith today. But what exactly was Nicaea? Why does it still matter to Christians ...

When they do so, their celebration will draw on a tradition stretching back 1,700 years to the Council of Nicaea, regarded by virtually all Christians as the first ecumenical council of the church.

Eastern and Western churches will celebrate Easter on the same day this year, while marking 1,700 years since the Council of Nicaea unified Christian doctrine ATHENS, Greece -- For more than 400 ...

Athanasius was born in the Egyptian city of Alexandria in the 290s. Athanasius attended the Council of Nicaea as secretary to Alexander, the Bishop of Alexandria. He became a powerful defender of ...

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 ...