Filioque
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Filioque is a Latin term meaning and the Son. The inclusion or omission of this term in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed has been a theological and procedural controversy, a major cause of the schi
The Holy Spirit coming from both the Father and the Son, detail of the Boulbon Altarpiece, c. 1450. Originally from the high altar of the Chapelle Saint-Marcellin, Boulbon, France, now in the Louvre, Paris.
First Council of Constantinople with halo-adorned Emperor Theodosius I (miniature in Homilies of Gregory Nazianzus (879–882), Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Maximus the Confessor
John VIII Palaiologos by Benozzo Gozzoli
Nicene Creed
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The Nicene Creed is the defining statement of belief of Nicene Christianity and in those Christian denominations that adhere to it.
Filioque
…English pronunciation FIL-ee-OH-kwee, -kway; Ecclesiastical Latin: ) is a Latin term meaning and the Son. The inclusion or omission of this term in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed has been a theological and procedural controversy, a major cause of the schism of 1054 AD between the Western and Eastern churches, and an ongoing…
Icon depicting Constantine the Great, accompanied by the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325), holding the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. First line of main text in Greek: Πιστεύω εἰς ἕνα Θ[εό]ν, πατέρα παντοκράτορα, ποιητὴν οὐρανοῦ κ[αὶ] γῆς. Translation: "I believe in one God, the Father, the Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth."
The oldest extant manuscript of the Nicene Creed, dated to the 6th century
17th-century Russian icon illustrating the articles of the creed