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July 381 A.D. Council
of Constantinople Concluded.
Varied Authors. “Council of
Constantinople.” Encyclopedia Britannica.
Sept 4, 2013. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/134014/Council-of-Constantinople. Accessed Apr 23, 2014.
Council of Constantinople, (381), the second ecumenical
council of the Christian church, summoned by the emperor Theodosius
I and meeting in Constantinople. Doctrinally, it
promulgated what became known to the church as the Nicene
Creed; it also declared finally the Trinitarian doctrine of the
equality of the Holy
Spirit with the Father and the Son. Among the council’s canons
was one giving the bishop of Constantinople precedence of honour over all other
bishops except the bishop of Rome, “because Constantinople is the New Rome.”
Though only eastern bishops had been summoned (about 150 in all), the
Greeks claimed this council to be ecumenical. Pope Damasus I in Rome appears to
have accepted the creed but not the canons, at least not the canon upon the
precedence of Constantinople. (Rome indeed accepted the precedence of
Constantinople, next to Rome, only during the life of the Latin Empire of Constantinople,
created in the 13th century during the Fourth Crusade.) In both East and West,
nevertheless, the council came to be regarded as ecumenical.
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