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
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
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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.
First Council of Constantinople
…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…
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