Hey, this is for a religion project. Can anyone tell me Why and when the council of Nicaea ended? thanx.
-Will
2007-11-08 06:22:50 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Because they voted to say that Jesus must have been god's son. Vote was over, they went home.
2007-11-08 06:25:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Council of Nicene was a series of seven different councils, originally ordered by Emporer Constantine beginning in 325 AD to try to reconcile the Easter and Western halves of the church (and some minor groups). The last of those council was in 787 AD.
1) First Nicaea in 325
2) Constantinople in 381
3) Ephesus in 431
4) Chalcedon in 451
5) Constantinople in 553
6) Constantinople in 681
7) Nicaea in 787
2007-11-08 14:37:34 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ordered, on pain of death, to come to a consensus definition of God they wrote the Nicene creed.
2007-11-08 14:28:50 · answer #3 · answered by Mike B 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋