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A synod is a council of a Christian denomination, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application. The word synod comes from the Ancient Greek σύνοδος 'assembly, meeting
Diocesan synod in Kraków in 1643 presided by Bishop Piotr Gembicki
Holy Sobor of 1917, following the election of Saint Tikhon as Patriarch of Moscow
EKHN's 10th Church Synod (general assembly), 2009
Members of a Reformed Synod in Amsterdam by Bernard Picart (1741)
First Council of Nicaea
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The First Council of Nicaea was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea by the Roman Emperor Constantine I, also known as the First Ecumenical Council. It met from May
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…of Evangelization" 2014 Meetings of bishops in the Roman Empire are known from the mid-third century and already numbered twenty by the time of the First Council of Nicaea (325). Thereafter they continued by the hundreds into the sixth century. Those authorized by an emperor and often attended by him came to be called…
The Council of Nicaea, with Arius depicted as defeated by the council, written by Michael Damaskinos, 1591.
Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325) holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381
A fresco depicting the First Council of Nicaea at the Vatican's Sistine Salon
A grafitti in Belgrade, Serbia, depicting apocryphal events at the First Council of Nicaea. The text reads "St. Nicholas at the council in Nicaea in the year 325 stops the great lie of the heretic Arius who convinced the people that Jesus Christ is not God".