The city is best known as the site of two ecumenical councils of Christianity: the First Council of Nicaea convened there by Emperor Constantine I in 325 and the Second Council of Nicaea ...

Well, it’s about time. I’m not suggesting that we’ve all been waiting with bated breath for the 1700 th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (May 325 CE) to finally arrive. Probably very few of us ...

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 ...

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 ...

İZNIK, Turkey (RNS) — For Christian leaders across the world and across denominations, the anniversary of the first Council of Nicaea is providing ... May through July 325 — more than 200 ...

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 heresy, which denied the true divinity of Jesus ...

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 ...

some verses from the Holy Bible that are appropriate as we are all keen to re-implement one of the important and logic decrees of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (325), begin with a verse from ...

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 ...

When they do so, their celebration will draw on a tradition stretching back 1,700 years to the Council ... of Nicaea — modern day İznik in Turkey — sometime in May or June of 325 at the ...