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

Most Americans don't believe they will experience a resurrection of their bodies when they die, putting them at odds with a core teaching of Christianity. The findings of a new Scripps Howard/Ohio ...

The Temple’s Round Church was built in 1162 to recreate the Rotunda of the Holy Sepulchre, or Anastasis, in Jerusalem, commissioned by Constantine soon after the Council of 325. The Temple ...

To standardize this, at the Council of Nicea (in 325 A.D.), the Western Church compiled information about lunar cycles into an ecclesiastical full moon table. It made March 21 the standard date of ...

Source: SBS Greek/Argyro Vourdoumpa The first egg is customarily dyed on Holy Thursday before sunrise, then placed near an icon at home ... Church at the Council of Nicea in 325 AD, the first ...

In 325 CE, Emperor Constantine called a meeting of church leaders, called the Council of Nicea. In the month-long meeting, the council decided on a set of agreements to guide how the church would ...

A minister who headed the National Council of Churches, she was active in liberal causes in the 1990s and sought to counter the conservative Christian Coalition. By Trip Gabriel When Joan Campbell ...

Icon from the Mégalo Metéoron Monastery in Greece, representing the First Ecumenical Council of Nikea 325 A.D., with the condemned Arius in the bottom of the icon. (Credit: Wikimedia.) ...

The International Theological Commission publishes “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Saviour: 1700th Anniversary of the Ecumenical Council of Nicea (325-2025)”, dedicated to the Council that produced the ...

then organized the Council of Nicea in 325. "But once the Roman Empire became Christianized, Christians asked themselves to what degree they could water down their early beliefs so that Caesar ...

Catholics started the tradition of Lent around the year 325, during the Council of Nicea, but it has spread through other Christian denominations, including Western Orthodox churches, Lutherans ...