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The Council declares that the Son was true God, co-eternal with the Father and begotten from His same substance, arguing that such a doctrine best codified the Scriptural presentation of the Son as well as traditional Christian belief about him handed down from the Apostles expressed by the bishops in the Creed of Nicaea, which would form the basis of what has since been known as the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed
The First Council of Constantinople, which affirms the Nicene Symbolum gives final form to the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed. The First Council of Constantinople is convened by Theodosius, the second ecumenical council, an effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom, confirmed the Nicene Creed, expanding the doctrine thereof to produce the NicenoConstantinopolitan Creed
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