Having only his own representations to guide them, and there being no question that Gregory's translation was uncanonical, while the election of Nectarius was open to grave censure as that of an unbaptized layman, Maximus also exhibiting letters from Peter the late venerable patriarch, to confirm his asserted communion with the church of Alexandria, the Italian bishops pronounced in favour of Maximus and refused to recognize either Gregory or Nectarius.

The resignation of Gregory, who was succeeded in the patriarchate of Constantinople by Nectarius, did not benefit Maximus.

Nectarius ( died 397 or 398 ) was the archbishop of Constantinople from AD 381 until his death, the successor to Saint Gregory Nazianzus.

When Gregory resigned, Nectarius was praetor of Constantinople.

Preparing for a journey to Tarsus, he called on the Bishop of Tarsus, Diodore, who was attending the First Council of Constantinople ( one of the ecumenical councils ), to ask if he could take letters for him ; his appearance and manners struck Diodorus so forcibly that he at once determined that he should be advanced as a candidate for Bishop ; making an excuse of attending to some other business, he took Nectarius to see the bishop of Antioch, who asked Nectarius to put off his journey a short time.

This choice caused some amazement amongst the Fathers who wanted to know-who and what was this Nectarius?

Nectarius was duly baptized and his clothes were changed for the robes of a Bishop of the Imperial city and became at once president of the Second Ecumenical Council.

Nectarius died in office in 397 or 398 and was succeeded by Saint John Chrysostom.

He was the brother of Nectarius, Chrysostom's predecessor, and had served as archpresbyter under Chrysostom.

Nectarius of Jerusalem ( 1605 – 1680 ) was Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem from 1660 to 1669.

In his doctrine of the Eucharist, Nectarius was strictly orthodox, and a zealous opponent of Cyril Lucar and the Calvinistic movement.

The authenticity of the robe was attested by Nectarius, Archbishop of Vologda, by Patriarch Theophanes of Jerusalem and by Joannicius the Greek.

He was ordained in the spring of 1977 by Bishop Nektary of Seattle, spiritual son of St. Nectarius of Optina, the last of the great Optina staretzy.

* Nectarius succeeds Gregory Nazianzus as Archbishop of Constantinople.

Six letters from Nectarius remain extant in the files of his predecessor Gregory Nazianzus.

A letter of Ambrose and his brother-prelates to Theodosius remonstrates against the acts of Nectarius as no rightful bishop, since the chair of Constantinople belonged to Maximus, whose restoration they demanded, as well as that a general council of Easterns and Westerns, to settle the disputed episcopate and that of Antioch, should be held at Rome.

** Nectarius of Jerusalem, Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem ( d. 1680 )

The first bishop known to history is Nectarius, who took part in several councils about the middle of the fifth century.

When the Emperor Theodosius I wanted the Bishops at the Council to suggest new candidates and reserving to himself the right of making the choice, the Bishop of Antioch put at the bottom of his list, Nectarius ' name.

The Emperor having read the lists, declared Nectarius to be his choice.

Nectarius ruled the church for upwards of 16 years, and is thought of as having been a good prelate.

No formal account remains of its proceedings, nor of how its members treated the question of Nectarius.

In his 15th letter ( to the bishops of Illyria ) he indicated that the church in Rome had finally agreed to recognize both Nectarius and Flavian.

After this, Nectarius returned home, full of anxiety and consulted the Novatianist Bishop Agelius, who felt himself unsuited to arbitrate on such a controversy.

Towards the close of his episcopate, Nectarius abolished the office of presbyter penitentiary, whose duty appears to have been to receive confessions before communion.

A disgraceful occurrence induced Nectarius to leave the participation in holy communion entirely to individual consciences and abolish the office.

Nectarius and Antoninus into other parts of Auvergne, and to have been beheaded in 92.

Limbo is a theory that unbaptized but innocent souls, such as those of infants, virtuous individuals who lived before Jesus Christ was born on earth, or those that die before baptism must wait before going to heaven.

He argued that this was a reward of natural happiness for natural virtue ; a reward of supernatural happiness for merely natural virtue would be inappropriate since, due to original sin, unbaptized children lack the necessary supernatural grace.

As a Roman Catholic in a Protestant nation, he was interred in a graveyard used mainly for unbaptized infants in Adolf Fredriks kyrka in Stockholm.

But Saint Perpetua, who was martyred in 202, believed herself to have been encouraged in a vision to pray for her brother, who had died in his eighth year, almost certainly unbaptized ; and a later vision assured her that her prayer was answered and he had been translated from punishment.

He shows Peter keeping the evening agape and Eucharist secret from Clement when unbaptized ; it was no doubt a Eucharist of bread and wine, not of bread and salt.

As unbaptized, they could not actively take part in any service, for that was reserved for those baptized.

The council was called by Constantine I ( an unbaptized catechumen, or neophyte ), who presided over the opening session and took part in discussions making the cross the symbol of Christian faith the world over.

It was widely believed, in Russian and Ukraine, that rusalki were spirits of unbaptized children or drowned maidens, who were in league with the Devil.

The city council decided in favor of Zwingli and infant baptism, ordered the Grebel group to cease their activities, and ordered that any unbaptized infants must be submitted for baptism within 8 days.

The city council condemned their position, ordered them to desist from their meetings, and ordered all unbaptized babies to be baptized within eight days.

Undergoing Baptism is not a prerequisite for receiving Communion, but if unbaptized people " regularly participate in Holy Communion, it is appropriate for pastors to talk with these people " about the possibility of them being baptized.

The Limbo of Infants ( Latin limbus infantium or limbus puerorum ) is a hypothesis about the permanent status of the unbaptized who die in infancy, too young to have committed personal sins, but not having been freed from original sin.

Since at least the time of Augustine, theologians, considering baptism to be necessary for the salvation of those to whom it can be administered, have debated the fate of unbaptized innocents, and the theory of the Limbo of Infants is one of the hypotheses that have been formulated as a proposed solution.

While the Catholic Church has a defined doctrine on original sin, it has none on the eternal fate of unbaptized infants, leaving theologians free to propose different theories, which Catholics are free to accept or reject.

Others held that unbaptized infants suffered no pain at all: unaware of being deprived of the beatific vision, they enjoyed a state of natural, not supernatural happiness.

: Our conclusion is that the many factors that we have considered above give serious theological and liturgical grounds for hope that unbaptized infants who die will be saved and enjoy the beatific vision.

* In the Dante's Inferno video game, Limbo is portrayed as a chaotic landscape watched over by Minos and inhabited by unbaptized infants with sickles for hands.

Sometimes the lights are believed to be the spirits of unbaptized or stillborn children, flitting between heaven and hell.

In Scandinavian folklore, Mylings are the phantasmal incarnations of the souls of unbaptized children that had been forced to roam the earth until they could persuade someone ( or otherwise cause enough of a ruckus to make their wishes known ) to bury them properly.

Renatus used this account to bolster his claim that unbaptized infants could attain paradise, if not the kingdom of heaven.

A heterodox Catholic might profess the belief that unbaptized infants are offered the option to accept or deny salvation by God at their judgment.

The belief is not orthodox, as the Church does not profess a belief as to what happens to unbaptized infants ; however, it is also not heresy, as the Church accepts that such a scenario might be possible.

Kingdom Halls may be used for wedding ceremonies of Witness-baptized couples, or of an unbaptized bride and groom simultaneously approaching baptism as Jehovah's Witnesses.

Their congregation handbook states that a person hoping to qualify as an unbaptized publisher should already be " an active associate of Jehovah's Witnesses ", that is, he or she should regularly attend congregation meetings.

If they attend meetings regularly and are considered to demonstrate progress toward becoming an unbaptized publisher, they may receive a copy of the monthly newsletter Our Kingdom Ministry, and may also qualify to join the congregation's Theocratic Ministry School.

Sava appoints protobishops, sending them over all of Serbia to baptize the unbaptized, marry the unmarried etc.

Some people believed that trolls would take unbaptized children.

Since most beings from Scandinavian folklore are said to be afraid of iron, Scandinavian parents often placed an iron item such as a pair of scissors or a knife on top of an unbaptized infant's cradle.