Bible Encyclopedias
Cyzicus, Council of

Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

(Coicilium Cyzic-num), held A.D. 376, according to Mansi, being the meeting of SemiArians mentioned by Basil in his letter to Patrophilus, and spoken of as a recent occurrence. "What else they did there I know not," says he; "but thus much I hear, that having been reticent of the term Homoousion, they now give utterance to the term Homoiousion, and join Eunomius in publishing blasphemies against the Holy Ghost.