Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul on Sunday, marking the 1,700th anniversary of Christianity's first ecumenical council ... together some 300 bishops, according to ...

In the summer of A.D. 325, more than 300 bishops gathered in Nicaea ... and promote unity in the Church. The first ecumenical council, known as the Council of Nicaea, is still accepted as ...

The First Ecumenical Council, the meeting of Christian bishops that was held in 325 in Nicaea (today İznik, Turkey), laid the groundwork for reaching consensus within the Church through an ...

The church universal this year celebrates the 1,700th anniversary of the Council ... recalcitrant bishops; and (no small thing) the establishment of a precedent for handling ecumenical gatherings ...

Every bishop expects the chapter on Jews to be further discussed and approved by the next session of the Ecumenical ... American bishops at the Vatican Council’s last meeting firmly supported ...

While the cultural and theological circumstances have greatly changed, this first ecumenical ... bishops. In the face of such discord, Emperor Constantine summoned the Church to a general council ...