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For the earlier Council of Constantinople in 359 dominated by Arians, see Council of Constantinople (360).
First Council of Constantinople
9th century Byzantine manuscript illumination of I Constantinople. Homilies of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, 879–883.
Date
381
Accepted by
Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Oriental Orthodoxy
Church of the East
Anglican Communion
Lutheranism
Calvinism
Previous council
First Council of Nicaea
Next council
Council of Ephesus
Convoked by
Emperor Theodosius I
President
Timothy of Alexandria, Meletius of Antioch, Gregory Nazianzus, and Nectarius of Constantinople
Attendance
150 (no representation of Western Church)
Topics
Arianism, Holy Spirit
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The First Council of Constantinople (Latin: Concilium Constantinopolitanum; Greek: Σύνοδος τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως) was a council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) in AD 381 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I.[1][2] This second ecumenical council, an effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom, except for the Western Church,[3] 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[4] in the Church of Hagia Irene and was affirmed as ecumenical in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon.
^Socrates Scholasticus, Church History, book 5, chapters 8 & 11, puts the council in the same year as the revolt of Magnus Maximus and death of Gratian.
^Hebblewhite, M. (2020). Theodosius and the Limits of Empire. pp. 56ff.
^Richard Kieckhefer (1989). "Papacy". Dictionary of the Middle Ages. ISBN 0-684-18275-0.
^"Catholic Encyclopedia: First Council of Constantinople". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2021-06-02.
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