A wall fresco depicting the First Council of Nicaea in the Sistine hall of the Vatican Library. (CNS photo/Carol Glatz) The various liturgical calendars in use throughout most of Christianity feature ...

ROME (AP) — Pope Francis said on Thursday that he hopes to travel to Turkey next year to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, Christianity’s first ecumenical council. The ...

Organised by the Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of Münster, an international conference will take place in Rome next week that focuses on the Council of Nicaea 1700 years ago and ...

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — Focusing again on the fundamental Christian beliefs outlined by the Council of Nicaea almost 1,700 years ago can help Christians today put Christ back at the center of their lives ...

Pope Leo XIV attends a ceremony marking the 1700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea held in the ruins of submerged basilica, revealed in 2014 after water levels receded in Lake Iznik. (Chris ...

COMMENTARY: The Council of Nicaea gave Christianity more than a creed — it gave the Church a way to calculate Easter. But unity around the great feast of the Resurrection remains incomplete. Pope ...

One of the most famous stories about the Council of Nicaea is the legend that St. Nicholas slapped the heretic Arius in the face for his impudence and heretical teaching. Whether this event actually ...

Although the ancient city of Nicaea lies in ruins and the geographic center of Christianity has shifted West, Pope Leo XIV and Christian leaders gathered at an archaeological site in Turkey to ...

Pope Francis asperges the coffing with the body of late Cardinal Miguel Ángel Ayuso Guixot during his funeral in St. Peter's Basilica at The Vatican Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2024. (AP Photo/Alessandra ...