The Nicene Creed would be expanded at the second ecumenical council, held in Constantinople in 381, to include a section on the Holy Spirit, the “one, holy, Catholic and apostolic Church,” and ...

The anniversary of the council has recently been considered a symbol for what ecumenical dialogue could look like between Eastern and Western churches. “We see today that we really lost what we ...

The forthcoming Ecumenical Council, to be convened here by Pope John XXIII next October, will probably discuss ways of removing from the Jews the stigma of “slayers of God,” Augustin Cardinal ...

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 ...

Although no new designation, the term “ecumenical” used in connection with this council (according to the papal reckoning, the twenty-first ecumenical council in the history of the Church) has ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul on Sunday, marking the 1,700th anniversary of Christianity's first ecumenical council. The first Council of Nicaea (located in modern ...