Council of Ephesus
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The Council of Ephesus was a council of Christian bishops convened in Ephesus in AD 431 by the Roman emperor Theodosius II. This third ecumenical council, an effort to attain consensus in the church t
Image in the church Notre-Dame de Fourvières, France. The priest standing right in the middle is Cyril of Alexandria. On the throne are the Virgin Mary and child Jesus.
Council of Ephesus in 431, in the Basilica of Fourvière, Lyon
Council of Ephesus, fresco at Ferapontov Monastery, c. 1502.
Cyril of Alexandria
The First Council of Constantinople 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 conse
Council of Ephesus
…assembled with the Holy Ghost in Nicæa". It quoted the Nicene Creed as adopted by the First Council of Nicaea in 325, not as added to and modified by the First Council of Constantinople in 381. Although some scholars, such as Norman Cohn and Peter Toon, have suggested that the Council of Ephesus rejected premillennialism, this is a…
9th-century Byzantine manuscript illumination of the First Council of Constantinople, Homilies of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, 879–883
Gregory of Nazianzus presided over part of the council.
Christ Pantocrator mosaic from Hagia Sophia 2744 x 2900 pixels 3.1 MB
Concile de Trente par NR Cochin