First Council of Constantinople
381 AD council of Christian bishops
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The First Council of Constantinople was a gathering of Christian bishops held in 381 AD to address theological disputes and clarify church doctrine. It matters because it produced important decisions about Christian beliefs that shaped the religion's development and were accepted by major branches of Christianity for centuries.
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- start time
- 0381-05-00
- end time
- 0381-07-00
- Commons category
- Council of Constantinople
- point in time
- 0381-00-00
- number of participants
- 150
- native label
- Concilium Constantinopolitanum
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The First Council of Constantinople (Latin: Concilium Constantinopolitanum; Ancient Greek: Σύνοδος τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως) was a council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople in AD 381 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I. This second ecumenical council, an effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom, except for the Western Church, confirmed the Nicene Creed, expanding the doctrine thereof to produce the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, and dealt with sundry other matters. It met from May to July 381 in the Church of Hagia Irene and was affirmed as ecumenical in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon for Chalcedonian Christianity and the Second Council of Ephesus for the Oriental Orthodox Churches.
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