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First Council of Nicaea

Council NameFirst Council of Nicea
Council Date325 AD
Accepted By*Anglicans *Assyrian Church of the East *Calvinists *Eastern Orthodox *Lutherans *Old Catholics *Oriental Orthodox *Roman Catholics
PreviousNone
NextFirst Council of Constantinople
Convoked ByEmperor Constantine I
Presided BySt. Alexander of Alexandria (and also Emperor Constantine)
Attendance250 � 318 (only five from Western Church)
TopicsArianism, celebration of Passover (Easter), ordination of eunuchs, prohibition of kneeling on Sundays and from Easter to Pentecost, validity of baptism by heretics, lapsed Christians, sundry other matters.
DocumentsOriginal Nicene Creed, 20 canons, and an epistle

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The First Council of Nicaea was a council of Christian bishops convened in Nicaea in Bithynia (present-day İznik in Turkey) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in A.D. 325. The Council was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom.

Its main accomplishments were settlement of the Christological issue of the relationship of Jesus to God the Father; the construction of the first part of the Nicene Creed; settling the calculation of the date of Easter; and promulgation of early canon law.


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