Constantinopolitan Creed
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of Constantinopolitan Creed
First recorded in 1670–80; from Late Latin Constantīnopolītānus, equivalent to Constantīnopol(is) (with Greek polī́tēs “citizen” replacing pólis “city”) + -ānus -an
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The Nicene Creed of the liturgies, often called the Constantinopolitan creed, is the old baptismal creed of Jerusalem revised by the insertion of Nicene terms.
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On the "Constantinopolitan" Creed and other Eastern Creeds of the Fourth Century. 8vo. 7s. 6d.
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The so-called Constantinopolitan creed, without the “filioque.”
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What are we to make of all that vast structure, of the elaboration and complication of which the Constantinopolitan Creed which we miscall Nicene and even the so-called Athanasian Creed give very little idea to those who do not also know something of the Councils, the Fathers, and the Schoolmen?
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