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Theotokos

1910 New Catholic Dictionary

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(Latin: Deipara or Dei Genetrix, Mother of God; Greek: Theotokos, bearing God)

Title of Our Lady officially sanctioned at the Council of Ephesus (431) upon the condemnation of the Nestorian heresy.

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Entry for 'Theotokos'. 1910 New Catholic Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​ncd/​t/theotokos.html. 1910.
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