This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history.

Either way, the Council of Nicaea — whose 1,700th anniversary we celebrate this year — remains deeply relevant to the ...

The goal of Nicaea—unity in faith among Christians—remains, but the methodology has changed almost 180 degrees and, if we are ...

Icon from the Mégalo Metéoron Monastery ... it also marks the 1700th Anniversary of the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea. The first Ecumenical Council took place in 325, and went against the Arian ...

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 church universal this year celebrates the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council intended to address all the churches of Christianity. Though his ongoing ...

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 ...

That such an initiative is underway just as the Christian churches celebrate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea is not by chance, for it was at that momentous ecumenical gathering ...

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 ...

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.

The Vatican on Thursday released a historical document to recognize the opening of the Council of Nicaea, convened during the pontificate of Pope Sylvester I in 325. The International ...

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 ...