Nicene Council

American  

noun

1. either of two church councils that met at Nicaea, the first in a.d. 325 to deal with the Arian heresy, the second in a.d. 787 to consider the question of the veneration of images.

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Nicene Council British  

noun

1. the first council of Nicaea, the first general council of the Church, held in 325 _ad to settle the Arian controversy

2. the second council of Nicaea, the seventh general council of the Church, held in 787 _ad to settle the question of images

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Etymology

Origin of Nicene Council

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

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Nicene Council

The great opportunity in the history of Christianity came in the century marked by the Nicene Council and in that succeeding it.

From Women of Early Christianity by Alfred Brittain

A curious tradition related that this band, including eleven other names from the remote East, were the only members of the Nicene Council who had not sustained some bodily mutilation or injury.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

The Greeks indeed, who approved of the Nicene Council, oppressed and also punished them wherever they were able; but the Arians returned the like treatment, especially in Africa and Italy.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 03 by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne

Or again, consider the very anathema annexed by the Nicene Council to its Creed, the language of which is so obscure, that even theologians differ about its meaning.

From An Essay In Aid Of A Grammar Of Assent by John Henry Newman

But to recur to the point of jurisdiction at the time of the Nicene Council.

From The Church of England cleared from the charge of Schism Upon Testimonies of Councils and Fathers of the first six centuries by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies

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