Seventeen hundred years ago — from May through July 325 — more than 200 bishops of early ... stress that the council still has relevance today, namely its ecumenical nature, or that the ...

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 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 ...

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 Ecumenical Officer of the Council of Bishops of the United Methodist Church. The purpose of the ecumenical dialogue is to gain greater insight into how caring for God's creation is fundamental ...

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 ...

Top ecumenical ... Council, International Congregational Council, World Convention of Churches of Christ (Disciples), Friends World Committee, International Conference of Old Catholic Bishops ...