The Council of Nicaea, held in 325 AD, does not refer to itself, at least in its extant Decreta, as “ecumenical” (oikoumenikos). There had already been imperial calls for different regional synods of bishops to meet together in preparation for a great council in the wake of the Arian crisis, and originally the synod had been planned for Galatian Ancyra,…
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