nicaea in English

noun

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an ancient city in Asia Minor, on the site of modern Iznik in Turkey. Two ecumenical councils of the early Christian Church were held here in 325 and 787.

Use "nicaea" in a sentence

1. None of the bishops at Nicaea promoted a Trinity, however.

2. Nicaea, though, did represent a turning point.

3. AFTER Nicaea, debates on the subject continued for decades.

4. The long-term effects of the Council of Nicaea were significant.

5. Many Church Fathers after the Council of Nicaea became staunch Trinitarians.

6. Did Constantine really understand the theological questions debated at the Council of Nicaea?

7. On February 28, 364, Pannonian officer Valentinian I was elected Augustus in Nicaea, Bithynia.

8. IN THE year 325 C.E., Roman Emperor Constantine summoned all bishops to Nicaea.

9. Constantine assembled scholars of various factions at Nicaea in the year 325.

10. To try to solve the dispute, Roman emperor Constantine summoned all bishops to Nicaea.

11. The first Council of Nicaea (artist’s impression) paved the way for the Trinity doctrine

12. But the annexation of the other planets of the Althosian system had left Nicaea economically and morally bankrupt.

13. He even called and personally presided over a church council at Nicaea, Asia Minor, in 325 C.E.

14. Amazingly, though, at the closing of the Council of Nicaea, Eusebius gave his support to the opposing view.

15. IN THE year 325 C.E., Roman emperor Constantine convened a council of bishops in the city of Nicaea in Asia Minor.

16. Although he believed that the Father existed before the Son, Eusebius accepted a different view at the council in Nicaea.

17. Arianism definition: the doctrine of Arius , pronounced heretical at the Council of Nicaea , which asserted Meaning, pronunciation, translations and examples

18. Hipparchus of Nicaea (second century), outstanding astronomer and founder of trigonometry, classified stars into magnitudes according to brightness, a system basically still in use.

19. In 787 Constantine had signed the decrees of the Second Council of Nicaea, but he appears to have had iconoclast sympathies.

20. 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.

21. The Crusaders conquered Nicaea (in Turkey) and Antioch and then went on to seize Jerusalem, and they established a string of Crusader-ruled states

22. All Christendom was horrified; but the East was soon Appeased by vague explanations, and after Nicaea, real, undisguised Arianism hardly showed its head for nearly forty years

23. Believers in Arianism, Newton included, feel that the Holy Trinity actually represents a heresy that the Council of Nicaea, in the 4th century, mistakenly made part of Christian dogma

24. "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.