Constantine I the Great20 May 325
The council is formally in the central structure of the imperial palace at Nicaea, with preliminary discussions of the Arian question
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The council is formally in the central structure of the imperial palace at Nicaea, with preliminary discussions of the Arian question
After being in session for an entire month, the council promulgates the original Nicene Creed adopted by all the bishops except two from Libya who had been closely associated with Arius
The First Council of Nicea is the first ecumenical council of the Church resulting in the first uniform Christian doctrine, the Nicene Creed, a precedent for local and regional councils of Bishops (Synods) to create statements of belief and canons of doctrinal orthodoxy for the whole of Christendom. Presides over the 1st General Council of the Church of Nicea. Christ & God are declared of the same substance, "consubstantial"
The First Council of Nicea was convened by Emperor Constantine the Great upon the recommendations of a synod led by Hosius of Cordoba in the Eastertide of 325, charged with investigation of the trouble brought about by the Arian controversy in the Greek-speaking east because
The first general council in the history of the Church since the Apostolic Council of Jerusalem, the Apostolic council having established the conditions upon which Gentiles could join the Church, the Council of Nicaea, "The Church had taken her first great step to define revealed
doctrine more precisely in response to a challenge from a heretical theology".
to many Bishops the teachings of Arius were heretical.
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