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1. Apollinarianism was condemned at the Second Ecumenical Council together with Macedonianism and other …

2. The Arian controversy was the first controversy to be decided by an ecumenical council

3. The 21st ecumenical council that met in four sessions in Rome from 1962-65.

4. Thus at the Second Ecumenical Council in AD 448, 23 Abbots signed with 30 bishops

5. “It was Pope John XXIII who launched the church on the seas of change with the Ecumenical Council.

6. Second Vatican Ecumenical Council, Decree on the Church's Missionary Activity Ad Gentes, 7: AAS 58 (1966), p. 955.

7. In 1987, Airs was founded by the Central Maryland Ecumenical Council as the faith community's response to the AIDS epidemic

8. The First Council of lyons, which is counted as the 13th Ecumenical Council, was Convoked by innocent iv (1243 – 54) in 1245

9. 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".

10. The Council of Trent (Italian: Trento) was an ecumenical council of the Catholic Church held in discontinuous sessions between 1545 and 1563 in response to the Protestant Reformation.

11. The Seventh Ecumenical Council in AD 787 recognized the right of Abbots to ordain their monks to the inferior orders below the diaconate, a power usually reserved to bishops

12. "Greetings and respected proskynesis" (Greek: "ἀσπασμόν καί τιμητικήν προσκύνησιν"; Latin: "osculum et honorariam Adorationem") for icons was established by the Second Council of Nicaea (Seventh Ecumenical Council) in 787.

13. Constantine—also known as Emperor Constantine I or Constantine the Great—decreed tolerance for Christians in the Edict of Milan, convened an ecumenical council to discuss Christian dogma and heresy, and constructed Christian edifices in his new capital city (Byzantium/Constantinople, now Istanbul)

14. Catechism OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH CONTENTS APOSTOLIC LETTER LAETAMUR MAGNOPERE IN WHICH THE LATIN TYPICAL EDITION OF THE Catechism OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IS APPROVED AND PROMULGATED APOSTOLIC CONSTITUTION FIDEI DEPOSITUM ON THE PUBLICATION OF THE Catechism OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH PREPARED FOLLOWING THE SECOND VATICAN ECUMENICAL COUNCIL …

15. The Synaxis of the Chief of the Heavenly Hosts, Archangel Michael and the Other Heavenly Bodiless Powers: Archangels Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Selaphiel, Jehudiel, Barachiel, and Jeremiel was established at the beginning of the fourth century at the Council of Laodicea, which met several years before the First Ecumenical Council.

16. When, as Emperor, Saint Theodosius the Great Convoked the Second Ecumenical Council in Constantinople two years later, he forbade that anyone should tell him who Meletius was; and as soon as he saw him, he recognized him, ran to him with joy, embraced him before all the other bishops, and told him of his dream.

17. And if anyone does not so believe, but undertakes to debate the matter further and is evil affected with regard to the veneration due the sacred images, such an one our holy ecumenical council (fortified by the inward working of the Spirit of God, and by the traditions of the Fathers and of the Church) Anathematises.