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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325) holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. (Credit: Wikipedia.) Listen LEICESTER, United Kingdom – ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Before the newly resurfaced ruins of the Basilica of Neophytos, Pope Leo XIV joined with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, hoping to recover the same spirit of unity that once ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...