Ecumenical council in Ephesus in 431, convened by Emperor Theodosius II
This article is about the ecumenical council held in 431. For the two later councils in the same city, see Council of Ephesus (disambiguation).
Council of Ephesus
Image in the church Notre-Dame de Fourvières, France. The priest standing right in the middle is Cyril of Alexandria. On the throne is the Virgin Mary and child Jesus.
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The Council of Ephesus was a council of Christian bishops convened in Ephesus (near present-day Selçuk in Turkey) in AD 431 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius II. This third ecumenical council, an effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom,[1] confirmed the original Nicene Creed,[2] and condemned the teachings of Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, who held that the Virgin Mary may be called the Christotokos, "Christ-bearer" but not the Theotokos, "God-bearer". It met in June and July 431 at the Church of Mary in Ephesus in Anatolia.
^Richard Kieckhefer (1989). "Papacy". Dictionary of the Middle Ages. ISBN 978-0-684-18275-9.
^[clarification needed]
Schaff, Philip; Wace, Henry, eds. (1996) [1890], A select library of Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church, Second series, vol. VII, Grand Rapids, Michigan, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans, ISBN 0-8028-8121-1 – via Internet Archive
Schaff, Philip; Wace, Henry, eds. (1890–1900), A select library of Nicene and post-Nicene fathers of the Christian church, Second Series, vol. 14, The Seven Ecumenical Councils, New York: Christian Literature Co. – via Internet Archive
Schaff, Philip; Wace, Henry, eds. (1890), "Early Church Fathers: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers", The Tertullian Project, II
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