Thus at the first Council of Constantinople, AD 448, 23 archimandrites or abbots sign, with 30 bishops.

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.

His advisor in these affairs was Eusebius of Nicomedia, who had already at the Council of Nicea been the head of the Arian party, who also was made bishop of Constantinople.

In 381, at the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople, a group of mainly Eastern bishops assembled and accepted the Nicene Creed of 381, which was supplemented in regard to the Holy Spirit, as well as some other changes: see Comparison between Creed of 325 and Creed of 381.

It was declared to be a heresy in 381 by the First Council of Constantinople, since Christ was officially depicted as fully human and fully God.

At the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451, Constantinople was given jurisdiction over three dioceses for the reason that the city was " the residence of the emperor and senate ".

In 692, the Quinisext Council formally recognized and ranked the sees of the Pentarchy in order of preeminence, at that time Rome, Constantinople, Alexandria, Antioch, and Jerusalem.

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.

The Oriental Orthodox Churches ( also called Old Oriental Churches ) are those eastern churches that recognize the first three ecumenical councils — Nicaea, Constantinople and Ephesus — but reject the dogmatic definitions of the Council of Chalcedon and instead espouse a Miaphysite christology.

This was reaffirmed at the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) and the Council of Ephesus ( 431 ).

Roman Legate Hilary, who as pope dedicated an oratory in the Lateran Basilica in thanks for his life, managed to escape from Constantinople and brought news of the Council to Leo who immediately dubbed it a " synod of robbers " — Latrocinium — and refused to accept its pronouncements.

Canon 28 grants equal privileges () to Constantinople as of Rome because Constantinople is the New Rome as renewed by canon 36 of the Quinisext Council.

The Council of Chalcedon also elevated the See of Constantinople to a position " second in eminence and power to the Bishop of Rome ".

He was a central figure in the First Council of Ephesus in 431, which led to the deposition of Nestorius as Patriarch of Constantinople.

This long running conflict widened with the third canon of the First Council of Constantinople which granted the see of Constantinople primacy over the older sees of Alexandria and Antioch.

The main issue that prompted this dispute between Cyril and Nestorius was the question which arose at the Council of Constantinople: What exactly was the being to which Mary gave birth?

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.

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

St. Cyril's jurisdiction over Jerusalem was expressly confirmed by the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ), at which he was present.

In the year AD 381, Pope Timothy I of Alexandria presided over the second ecumenical council known as the Ecumenical Council of Constantinople, to judge Macedonious, who denied the Divinity of the Holy Spirit.

# First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) repudiated Arianism and Macedonianism, declared that Christ is " born of the Father before all time ", revised the Nicene Creed in regard to the Holy Spirit.

Its present canon law requires that an ecumenical council be convoked and presided over, either personally or through a delegate, by the Pope, who is also to decide the agenda ; but the church makes no claim that all past ecumenical councils observed these present rules, declaring only that the Pope's confirmation or at least recognition has always been required, and saying that the version of the Nicene Creed adopted at the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ) was accepted by the Church of Rome only seventy years later, in 451.

This practical eminence of Constantinople in the East is evident, first at the First Council of Constantinople 381, and then ecumenically at the Council of Chalcedon in 451.

One of the decisions made by the First Council of Constantinople ( the second ecumenical council, meeting in 381 ) and supported by later such councils was that the Patriarch of Constantinople should be given equal honor to the Pope of Rome since Constantinople was considered to be the " New Rome ".

It was the first Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople and was called by Theodosius I in 381.

In the spring of 381 they convened the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople.

In the spring of 381 they convened the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople, which was attended by 150 Eastern bishops.

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

* Nicene Creed or the Creed of Nicaea is used to refer to the original version adopted at the First Council of Nicaea ( 325 ), to the revised version adopted by the First Council of Constantinople ( 381 ), to the Latin version that includes the phrase " Deum de Deo " and " Filioque ", and to the Armenian version, which does not include " and from the Son ", but does include " God from God " and many other phrases.

A modified version of this proposal was accepted by Cromwell and the Council of Officers and less than a month after the dissolution of the Rump, during May 1653, letters in the name of the Lord-General and the Army Council were sent to Congregational churches in every county in England to nominate those they considered fit to take part in the new government.

It is traditionally believed that the Second Ecumenical Council held in Constantinople in 381 added the section that follows the words " We believe in the Holy Spirit " ( without the words " and the Son " relative to the procession of the Holy Spirit, which would become a point of contention in the Great Schism of Orthodoxy from Catholicism ); hence the name " Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed ", referring to the Creed as modified in the First Council of Constantinople.

On the basis of evidence both internal and external to the text, it has been argued that this creed originated not as an editing by the First Council of Constantinople of the original Nicene Creed, but as an independent creed ( probably an older baptismal creed ) modified to make it more like the Nicene Creed of 325 and attributed to the Council of 381 only later.

On January 20, 1649, a version of the " Agreement of the People " that had been drawn up in October 1647 for the Army Council and subsequently modified was presented to the House of Commons.

Originally opposed to Israel's existence, he modified his position in 1988 when he accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242.

A modified version ( with broken vertical stripes ) can be seen in the coat of arms and flag used by Northumberland County Council.

The State Council acts by virtue of the NPC's authority and there has been at least one case where the NPC has outright rejected an initiative of the State Council and a few cases where the State Council has withdrawn or greatly modified a proposal in response to NPC opposition.

It did not specify whether it meant the Nicene Creed as adopted by the First Council of Nicaea in 325, or as added to and modified by the First Council of Constantinople in 381.

This era begins with the First Council of Nicaea, which enunciated the Nicene Creed that in its original form and as modified by the First Council of Constantinople of 381 AD was seen as the touchstone of orthodoxy on the doctrine of the Trinity.

Such was the expansion involved that the Council Chamber, originally designed to accommodate 80 members, had to be modified to seat the representatives of the new wards.

The act ostensibly modified the existing Charter rather than establishing a new institution: it attempted to change the name to Dartmouth University, to increase the number of Trustees from twelve to twenty-one, and to create a board of twenty-five Overseers including, ex officio, the Governor and Council, the President of the Senate, the Speaker of the House, and the Governor and Lieutenant-Governor of Vermont.

* A Proposed Final Draft consisting of all prior Tentative Drafts as modified by membership action may then be submitted to the Council and the membership.

As such, a modified crest very similar to the one most recently used will remain a part of Richmond Hill's brand and will be used for official Council business only.

The compulsory nature of the Bible reading and prayer recitation was slightly modified by regulations drawn up by the Council of Public Instruction.

A modified form of malapportionment was, however, retained for the Legislative Council, the state upper house.

The following third Council of Stellar Management included a modified age restriction: candidates under the age of 21 are then no longer eligible as CSM members.

While little is known about the Council, records indicate that its organization was to be based upon the principles extant in the United States Constitution, and in theory God's Political Kingdom was to temper theocracy with a modified form of republican government.