Template:Ecumenical councils

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v t e Ecumenical councils (See also First seven Ecumenical Councils)

Councils recognized by:	Councils names (with year)

Oriental Orthodox Coptic, Ethiopian, Eritrean, Armenian, Malankara, and Syriac Orthodox	Nicaea I (325) • Constantinople I (381) · Ephesus (431) · Ephesus II (449: accepted only by Oriental Orthodox)

West & East E. Orthodox, Roman Catholic & Old Catholic	Nicaea I (325) · Constantinople I (381) · Ephesus (431) · Chalcedon (451) · Constantinople II (553) · Constantinople III (680–81) · Nicaea II (787)

Eastern Orthodox only & partly recognized	Quinisext Council (the Council in Trullo) (692) · Constantinople IV (879–80) · Constantinople V (1341–51) · Synod of Jerusalem (1672)

Roman Catholic only	Constantinople IV (869–70) · Lateran I (1123) · Lateran II (1139) · Lateran III (1179) · Lateran IV (1215) · Lyon I (1245) · Lyon II (1274) · Vienne (1311–12) · Constance (1414–18) · Florence (1431–45) · Lateran V (1512–14) · Trent (1545–63) · Vatican I (1869–70) · Vatican II (1962–65)

Reformed (Calvinism) only	Synod of Dort (1618–19) · Westminster Assembly (1643–49)

Anglicans, Lutherans, Calvinists & some other Protestants recognize the first four of those councils accepted by both East and West, and in some cases the first seven. Other Protestants have various views • the Assyrian Church of the East accepts the first two of those councils accepted by both East and West.