When the Roman Emperor Constantine convened the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D., both the church and the empire were in a state of flux. A little more than a decade earlier, Constantine had legalized ...

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 ...

The journey to Nicaea for the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea is expected to be the first international trip of Leo XVI. When asked by journalists during the meeting in Aula Paolo VI, Leo ...

Explore the sunken remains of an early Christian basilica in western Turkey. Uncover the sunken remains of a 4th-century basilica in Turkey. Submerged beneath the waters of Lake Iznik for hundreds of ...

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 ...