The ruins of the church where the First Council of Nicaea met may have been found . . . under a lake. Has the podcast bubble burst? “Panoply, the podcasting unit set up by Slate magazine, recently ...

A wall fresco depicting the First Council of Nicaea in the Sistine Hall of the Vatican Library. (CNS photo/Carol Glatz) The church universal this year celebrates the 1,700th anniversary of the Council ...

İZNIK, Turkey (RNS) — For Christian leaders across the world and across denominations, the anniversary of the first Council of Nicaea is providing an opportunity for introspection and, potentially, ...

Well, it’s about time. I’m not suggesting that we’ve all been waiting with bated breath for the 1700 th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea (May 325 CE) to finally arrive. Probably very few of us ...

IZNIK, Turkey —On the second day of his inaugural foreign trip, Pope Leo XIV visited the site where early Christian leaders met 1,700 years ago for the First Council of Nicaea — the gathering that ...

Pope Leo XIV greets participants attending a conference on the ecumenical implications of the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea June 7, 2025, in the Clementine Hall of the Apostolic Palace ...

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 ...

In this second commentary on the Council of Nicaea, I would like to revisit the pivotal role played by the man who convened it: the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great. It is indeed paradoxical that a ...

In the summer of A.D. 325, more than 300 bishops gathered in Nicaea — located in modern-day northern Turkey — to promulgate a common Christian creed, settle Christological disputes that arose from the ...

From the beginning of his election as the successor to St. Peter, Pope Leo XIV has summoned the Church to a renewed faith in the one Savior. As he said emphatically in the opening Mass of his ...

Organised jointly by the University of Münster and the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, an international conference in Mid-October will focus on the Council of Nicaea 1,700 years ago and its ...