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Councils, Church
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Assemblies of bishops to decide questions of doctrine and ecclesiastical discipline. They are oecumenical, national, or provincial, according as the bishops assembled represented the whole Church, a merely national one, or a provincial section of it. Eastern: Nice, 325 (at which Arius was condemned), 787; Constantinople, 381 (at which Apollinaris was condemned), 553,680, 869; Ephesus, 431 (at which Nestorius was condemned); Chalcedon, 451 (at which Eutyches was condemned). Western: Lateran, 1123,1139, 1179,1215, 1274; Synod of Vienne, 1311; Constance, 1414; Basel, 1431-1443; Trent, 1545-1563; Vatican, 1869.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Councils, Church'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/councils-church.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Councils, Church'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/c/councils-church.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
