Schweitzer concludes that the 1st century theology, originating in the lifetimes of those who first followed Jesus, is both incompatible with, and far removed from, those beliefs later made official by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 CE.

By 325, the controversy had become significant enough that the Emperor Constantine called an assembly of bishops, the First Council of Nicaea, which condemned Arius ' doctrine and formulated the original Nicene Creed of 325.

Nicaea was convoked by Constantine I in May – August 325 to address the Arian position that Jesus of Nazareth is of a distinct substance from the Father.

An Eastern Christianity | Eastern Christian Icon depicting Constantine I and Christianity | Emperor Constantine and the Fathers of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) as holding the Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381.

Early Christendom would close at the end of imperial persecution of Christians after the ascension of Constantine the Great and the Edict of Milan in AD 313 and the First Council of Nicaea in 325.

Icon depicting Constantine I and Christianity | Emperor Constantine ( center ) and the Fathers of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) as holding the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed of 381

The Ecumenical Council of Nicea AD 325 was convened by Constantine under the presidency of Saint Hosius of Cordova and Pope Saint Alexander I of Alexandria to resolve the dispute and eventually led to the formulation of the Symbol of Faith, also known as the Nicene Creed.

Emperor Constantine I ordered in about 325 / 326 that the temple be demolished and the soil-which had provided a flat surface for the temple-be removed, instructing Macarius of Jerusalem, the local Bishop, to build a church on the site.

In 325 AD Constantine I abolished the system and restored single emperor rule, but following the death of Theodosius in 395 AD, the empire returned to the system of co-emperors, each with primary authority for half the empire.

The First Council of Nicaea ( naɪsi: ə ; ) was a council of Christian bishops convened in Nicaea in Bithynia ( present-day İznik in Turkey ) by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325.

The Roman persecution of Christians ended in AD 313 under the reign of Constantine the Great, who in 325 prompted the First Council of Nicaea, the beginning of the period of the First seven Ecumenical Councils.

Laws of Constantine I around 325 both reinforced the semi-servile status of the coloni and limited their rights to sue in the courts ; the Codex Theodosianus promulgated under Theodosius II extended these restrictions.

Icon depicting Constantine I and Christianity | Emperor Constantine ( center ) and the Fathers of the First Council of Nicaea of 325 as holding the Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381

Icon depicting Constantine I | the Emperor Constantine ( centre ) and the bishop s of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) holding the Nicene Creed # The Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 | Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381.

In 325 CE Constantine, the first Christian emperor, said " let us then have nothing in common with the detestable Jewish crowd.

In the reign of Constantine, 325, the celebrated First Council of Nicaea was held there against the Arian heresy, and the prelates there defined more clearly the concept of the Trinity and drew up the Nicene Creed.

To a large degree, Protestantism recognizes that the formation of the Orthodox-Catholic Church under Caesar Constantine I ( c. 325 AD ) sought to bring stability, continuity and organization to the birth of the relatively new Christian faith.

* History of the first Council of Nice: a world's Christian convention, A. D. 325 ; with a life of Constantine, Dean Dudley ( 1880 )

* History of the first Council of Nice: a world's Christian convention, A. D. 325 ; with a life of Constantine ( Internet Archive ) by Dean Dudley

" Jesus that I know as my Redeemer cannot be less than God " ~ at the Council of Nicæa ( c. 325 )

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Licinius I ( c. 263 – 325 ), was Roman Emperor from 308 to 324.

Seleucus also took his future wife, the Persian princess Apama ( daughter of Spitamenes ), with him into India as his mistress, where she gave birth to his bastard eldest son and successor Antiochus I Soter ( 325 BC ).

I wanted to put the laughers on my side, or at least to put myself on their side " ( Camus 325 ).

Icon depicting Constantine I and the bishop s of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) holding the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed | Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381.

* Shaka I ( c. 325 – 345 )

King Charles himself disliked the idea of a statue of himself atop the monument, pointing out " I didn't start the fire ", and instead preferred a simple copper-gilded ball " with flames sprouting from the top ", costing a little over £ 325, but ultimately it was the design of a flaming gilt-bronze urn suggested by Robert Hooke that was chosen.

The traditional location of Golgotha derives from its identification by Helena, the mother of Constantine I, in 325.

Icon depicting Constantine I | the Roman Emperor Constantine ( centre ) and the bishop s of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) holding the Nicene Creed # The Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381 | Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381.

Icon depicting Constantine I | the Emperor Constantine ( centre ) and the bishop s of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) holding the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed | Niceno – Constantinopolitan Creed of 381.

Crosby indicated she had received less than $ 325 from the sale of the book, that her " requests had been disregarded ", but that " when these facts are fully known to all, the publishers can sell the book as they desire ; only I have no wish to increase its sale for my own benefit, which, of course, is very small ".

He was the fifth Catholicos of the Arsacid dynasty of Armenia after St. Gregory I the Enlightener ( 301 – 325 ), St. Aristaces I ( 325 – 333 ), St. Vrtanes I ( 333 – 341 ) and St. Husik I ( 341 – 347 ).

Deemed a heretic by the Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea of 325, Arius was later exonerated in 335 at the regional First Synod of Tyre, and then, after his death, pronounced a heretic again at the Ecumenical First Council of Constantinople of 381.

In 325, at the age of 27, Athanasius had a leading role against the Arians in the First Council of Nicaea.

In 325, he served as Alexander's secretary at the First Council of Nicaea.

Athanasius may have accompanied Alexander to the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the council which produced the Nicene Creed and anathematized Arius and his followers.

However, early church documents, such as those of the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) had always listed the Pope of Rome first among the Ancient Patriarchs ( first four, and later five: Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem — collectively referred to as the Pentarchy ).

The Nicene Creed, largely a response to Arianism, was formulated at the Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople in 325 and 381 respectively and ratified as the universal creed of Christendom by the First Council of Ephesus in 431.

In 325, the first ecumenical council ( First Council of Nicaea ) determined that Jesus Christ was God, " consubstantial " with the Father, and rejected the Arian contention that Jesus was a created being.

One of the most widely used creeds in Christianity is the Nicene Creed, first formulated in AD 325 at the First Council of Nicaea.

The Nicene Creed reflects the concerns of the First Council of Nicaea in 325 which had as their chief purpose to establish what Christians believed.

" These are likely the same Cathari mentioned in Canon 8 of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which states "... f those called Cathari come over the Catholic faith, let them first make profession that they are willing to communicate full communion with the twice-married, and grant pardon to those who have lapsed ..."

Docetism was unequivocally rejected at the First Council of Nicaea in 325 and is regarded as heretical by the Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, and many others.

The First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon ( the Paschal Full Moon ) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.

This controversy between those who advocated independent computations, and those who wished to continue the custom of relying on the Jewish calendar, was formally resolved by the First Council of Nicaea in 325 ( see below ), which endorsed the move to independent computations, effectively requiring the abandonment of the old custom of consulting the Jewish community in those places where it was still used.

The First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) established the date of Easter as the first Sunday after the full moon ( the Paschal Full Moon ) following the northern hemisphere's vernal equinox.

At the First Council of Nicaea in 325 it was decided that all Christian churches would celebrate Easter on the same day, which would be computed independently of any Jewish calculations to determine the date of Passover.

In the history of Christianity, the First seven Ecumenical Councils, from the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) to the Second Council of Nicaea ( 787 ), represent an attempt to reach an orthodox consensus and to unify Christendom under the State church of the Roman Empire.

# First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ) repudiated Arianism, declared that Christ is " homoousios with the Father " ( of the same substance as the Father ), and adopted the original Nicene Creed, fixed Easter date ; recognized primacy of the sees of Rome, Alexandria and Antioch and granted the See of Jerusalem a position of honor.