chalcedon in English

noun
1
a former city on the Bosporus in Asia Minor, now part of Istanbul.

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1. Hairy Beardtongue is one of the larval host plants of the Chalcedon Checkerspot, the Baltimore Checkerspot and Edith's Checkerspot

2. In nearby Kadıköy (ancient Chalcedon), a large port settlement dating from the Phoenicians (which predates the Megaran settlement) has been discovered.

3. It was at the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon in 451 that Leo I (through his emissaries) stated that he was "speaking with the voice of Peter".

4. The word "Consubstantial", was used by the Council of Chalcedon (451) also to declare that Christ is "Consubstantial with the Father in respect of the Godhead, and the same Consubstantial with us in respect of the manhood"

5. The word "Coptic" is derived from a Greek term meaning "Egyptian." At the Council of Chalcedon, the Coptic Church split from other Christians around the Mediterranean, in a disagreement over the true nature of Christ.

6. Both Apostasy from monastic vows (when a monk left his monastery without permission of his superior) and Apostasy from the priesthood (when a priest returned to the world) were punished by the Council of Chalcedon with the anathema, and later ecclesiastical legislation threatened them with the loss of the privileges of the order and the

7. In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical Councils include the following: the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Council of Constantinople in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the Second Council of Constantinople in 553, the Third Council of Constantinople from 680–681 and finally, the Second Council of Nicaea in 787.