Christology was a major focus of these debates, and was addressed at every one of the first seven ecumenical councils.

Both the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic Church recognise as ecumenical the first seven councils, held from the 4th to the 9th century ; but while the Eastern Orthodox Church accepts no later council or synod as ecumenical, the Roman Catholic Church continues to hold general councils of the bishops in full communion with the Pope, reckoning them as ecumenical, and counting in all, including the seven recognized by the Eastern Orthodox Church, twenty-one to date.

Anglicans and confessional Protestants, accept either the first seven or the first four as Ecumenical councils.

However, the Orthodox churches accept only the first seven general councils as genuinely ecumenical, while Roman Catholics accept twenty-one.

Only a very few Protestants believe in the infallibility of ecumenical councils, but they usually restrict this infallibility to the Christological statements of the first seven councils.

Lutheran Christians recognize the first four councils, whereas most High Church Anglicans accept all seven as persuasive but not infallible.

While the Russian Orthodox Church does recognize the first seven ecumenical councils as valid, some Russian Orthodox theologians believe that the infallibility of these councils ' statements derived from their acceptance by the faithful ( and thus from the infallibility of all believers ), and not from the acts of the councils themselves.

The first seven councils recognized in both East and West as ecumenical and several others to which such recognition is refused were called by the Byzantine emperors.

As late as the 11th century, only seven councils were recognized as ecumenical in the Roman Catholic Church.

It is unlikely that formal recognition as ecumenical will be granted to these three councils, despite the acknowledged orthodoxy of their decisions, so that only seven are universally recognized among the Eastern Orthodox as ecumenical.

The Eastern Orthodox Church accepts the first seven ecumenical councils, with the Council in Trullo considered a continuation of the sixth.

Both the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches recognize seven councils in the early centuries of the church, but Roman Catholics also recognize fourteen councils in later times called or confirmed by the Pope.

The first seven councils were called by the Byzantine Emperors and the sixteenth by the future Holy Roman Emperor Sigismund.

Many Protestants ( especially those belonging to the magisterial traditions, such as Lutherans, or those such as Methodists, that broke away from the Anglican Communion ) accept the teachings of the first seven councils but do not ascribe to the councils themselves the same authority as Roman Catholics and the Eastern Orthodox do.

The Lutheran World Federation, in ecumenical dialogues with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has affirmed all of the first seven councils as ecumenical and authoritative.

The permanent criteria of church structure for the Orthodox Church today, outside the New Testament writings, are found in the canons ( regulation and decrees ) of the first seven ecumenical councils ; the canons of several local or provincial councils, whose authority was recognized by the whole church ; the Apostolic Canons, dating from the 4th century ); and the " canons of the Fathers " or selected extracts from prominent church leaders having canonical importance.

All seven recognized that independence was but the first step toward building a nation.

A paper published at the same time as the 2009 classification proposed seven subfamilies for the families recognized in the very first APG classification of 1998.

Anointing of the Sick is one of the seven Sacraments recognized by the Catholic Church, and is associated with not only bodily healing but also forgiveness of sins.

There are nearly 20, 000 known species of bees in seven to nine recognized families, though many are undescribed and the actual number is probably higher.

While the previous seven ecumenical councils are recognized as ecumenical and authoritative by both East and West, many Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize the council of 879 as the Eighth Ecumenical Council, arguing that it annulled the earlier one.

The All-Palestine Government was quickly recognized by six of the then seven members of the Arab League: Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen, but not by Transjordan.

When later Christ appeared at the Lake of Genesareth John was also the first of the seven disciples present who recognized his Master standing on the shore ( John 21: 7 ).

Traditionally, seven major groups of dialects have been recognized.

The CPU recognized seven interrupt levels.

The Second Council of Nicaea is recognized as the seventh of the first seven ecumenical councils by both West and East.

Tradition holds that the seven hills were first occupied by small settlements and not grouped or recognized as a city called Rome.

The Second Council of Constantinople is the fifth of the first seven ecumenical councils recognized as such by both West and East.

In the United States, only seven states have an official name change for a man as part of their marriage process, others may petition a court, or, where not prohibited, use the common law method ( though sometimes not recognized by government agencies for men ).

It was recognized that employees cannot work for twelve or more hours a day, six or seven days a week, year after year, without suffering physically as well as mentally.

There are generally seven recognized layers in a food forest, although some practitioners also include fungi as an eighth layer:

There are seven recognized historical markers in the county:

It is said that Constantius was organizing a military expedition to the East to have his rights recognized, when he died suddenly on September 2, 421, after just seven months as emperor, the archetype of able soldier and politician that the Western Roman Empire desperately needed at the time.

In 1935, ICMA recognized 418 U. S. cities and seven counties using the system.

The whole engagement lasted less than an hour, in which the Ottoman suffered heavy damage to the Barbaros Hayreddin and 18 dead and 41 wounded ( most during their disorderly retreat ) and the Greeks one dead and seven wounded.

The national economy shrank by 6. 76 % during the whole period, totalizing seven quarters of recession.

The walls were seven feet ( 2. 1 meters ) high and fourteen feet ( 4. 3 meters ) thick, and the whole works was surrounded by a glacis and a dry moat five feet ( 1. 5 meters ) deep and wide.

(" He divided these regions into deaconships and made seven sub-deaconships which seven secretaries oversaw, so that they brought together the deeds of the martyrs faithfully made whole, and he brought forth many works in the cemeteries.

However, every seven years you do the ritual, the ceremony, the whole thing.

Sunday, 14 October 1492: ... These people have little knowledge of fighting, as Your Majesties will see from the seven I have had captured to take away with us so as to teach them our language and return them, unless Your Majesties ' orders are that they all be taken to Spain or held captive on the island itself, for with fifty men one could keep the whole population in subjection and make them do whatever one wanted.

“ The hands of Zerubbabel have laid the foundation of this house ; his hands shall also complete it … The seven are the eyes of the Lord, which range through the whole earth … the two olive trees … are the two sons of oil ( anointed ones ) who stand by the Lord of the whole earth ” ( Zech 4. 9-14 ).

When the Church was still confined to Jerusalem, he was chosen by the whole multitude of the disciples to be one of the first seven deacons, and he was ordained by the apostles, c. AD 33.

He modelled his work on the " choral " lyrics of Stesichorus at least in so far as he wrote narratives on mythical themes ( often with original variations from the traditional stories ) and structured his verses in triads ( units of three stanzas each, called " strophe ", " antistrophe " and " epode "), so closely in fact that even the ancients sometimes had difficulty distinguishing between the two poets Whereas however ancient scholars collected the work of Stesichorus into twenty-six books, each probably a self-contained narrative that gave its title to the whole book, they compiled only seven books for Ibycus, which were numbered rather than titled and whose selection criteria are unknown.

In 1964, Mansfield, as Senate Majority Leader, filed a procedural motion to have the proposed Civil Rights Act discussed by the whole Senate rather than by the Judiciary Committee, the latter having killed similar legislation seven years prior.

In 1982 the Reagan administration used the Sherman Act to break up AT & T into one long-distance company and seven regional " Baby Bells ", arguing that competition should replace monopoly for the benefit of consumers and the economy as a whole.

Among the daughters of the Rupave and Supave was Porâsý, notable for sacrificing her own life in order to rid the world of one of the seven legendary monsters, diminishing their power ( and thus the power of evil as a whole ).

He reigned for seven years, the whole of which period was marked by his continuous campaigns and his many battles.

Her recovery is implied in season seven when Etta mentions that, after Virgil and Althea left Sparta, she comes to visit and sometimes stays the whole week.

Her number is 7 ( a tie into the seven seas ), her colors are blue and white ( representing water ), and her favorite offerings include melons, molasses (" melaço " is sugar cane syrup ), whole fried fishes and pork rinds.

It consists of seven members, four of which are citizen members appointed by the Town Council President and three who must be either Town employees or appointed or elected members of another board appointed by the Town Council as a whole.

The Clark Township Committee consists of seven members, with three elected at-large from the township as a whole and four elected from wards.

Nobody had the courage to oppose the new king, who ruled for seven months over the whole empire.

Of note was the inclusion of " Poet Laureate II ", a song exceeding seven minutes in length and lacking a chorus, with several changes of beat throughout ; the track was frequently singled out as one of the strongest in Canibus ' career and the album as a whole convinced listeners and the industry alike that the rapper had not lost his potential.

The present arrangement provides for seven hulali at each ferial night service, ten on Sundays, three on " Memorials ", and the whole Psalter on Feasts of the Lord.

The Channel Tunnel connects the United Kingdom with France, Belgium and thus the whole of the European rail system, and is considered one of the seven wonders of the modern world.