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- some councils that others accept. The Church of the East (accused by others of adhering to Nestorianism) accepts as ecumenical the first two councils. Oriental...64 KB (7,443 words) - 16:12, 22 May 2024
- seven of these councils as legitimate ecumenical councils. The Non-Chalcedonian Oriental Orthodox Churches accept only the first three, while the Non-Ephesian...27 KB (2,649 words) - 04:05, 9 July 2024
- Synod (redirect from Church Councils)convoked by the metropolitan with consent of a majority of the suffragan bishops. Plenary and provincial councils are categorized as particular councils. A particular...25 KB (2,930 words) - 16:32, 19 July 2024
- provincial councils involve the bishops of an ecclesiastical province. The Catholic Church recognizes as ecumenical 21 councils occurring over a period of some...30 KB (4,024 words) - 04:42, 9 September 2024
- detailed acta of the council exist as they do for later councils, so the exact sequence of the council's debates is uncertain. Church councils at the time were...67 KB (7,981 words) - 13:58, 8 September 2024
- The Councils of Carthage were church synods held during the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries in the city of Carthage in Africa. The most important of these...19 KB (2,016 words) - 14:38, 21 August 2024
- the Church of the Councils because two councils of importance to the history of Early Christianity are assumed to have been held within. The church is...3 KB (377 words) - 19:25, 11 March 2024
- Christianity, Church councils are formal meetings of bishops and representatives of several churches who are brought together to regulate points of doctrine...13 KB (1,534 words) - 17:32, 14 March 2023
- the history of Christianity and later of the Roman Catholic Church, there have been several Councils of Aquileia. The Roman city of Aquileia at the head...9 KB (1,106 words) - 11:55, 13 June 2024
- The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, usually identified as the National Council of Churches (NCC), is the largest ecumenical body...28 KB (3,134 words) - 16:25, 29 July 2024
- ecumenical councils. The principal purpose of the council was to re-assert the teachings of the ecumenical Council of Ephesus against the teachings of Eutyches...66 KB (8,437 words) - 19:29, 2 September 2024
- The Councils of Narbonne were a series of provincial councils of the Catholic Church held in Narbonne, France. A council was supposedly held in Narbonne...10 KB (1,138 words) - 22:24, 26 August 2024
- The Second Council of Constantinople is the fifth of the first seven ecumenical councils recognized by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic...16 KB (1,811 words) - 12:35, 18 August 2024
- the Councils and the Church (1539) is a treatise on ecclesiology written by Protestant reformer Martin Luther late in life. On the Councils and the Church...1 KB (169 words) - 08:06, 22 October 2023
- of California Press. p. 279 pages. ISBN 0-520-24703-5. Tanner, Norman P. The Councils of the Church, ISBN 0-8245-1904-3 The Byzantine legacy in the Orthodox...14 KB (1,499 words) - 15:04, 18 August 2024
- and the First Council of Constantinople in 381. The Church of the East accepted the teaching of these two councils, but ignored the 431 Council and those...124 KB (13,718 words) - 20:19, 1 September 2024
- referred to unofficially as church courts. According to the church's General Handbook, the purposes of church membership councils are to: Help protect others;...19 KB (2,204 words) - 08:23, 25 March 2024
- The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members...59 KB (6,121 words) - 21:28, 28 July 2024
- The President of the Church is the highest office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was the office held by Joseph Smith...31 KB (4,132 words) - 13:52, 28 January 2024
- Halfond, Gregory I. (2009). "Appendix A: Frankish Councils, 511-768". Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768. Brill. pp. 223–46. ISBN 978-90-04-17976-9...12 KB (1,246 words) - 02:21, 23 June 2024
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- the first two councils. The schismatic churches protest against the additions made to the creeds of Nicæa and Constant inople by succeeding councils.
- declared by the first Vatican Council (1869-1870). Prior to that declaration, there was a strong and continuing claim that Church Councils were the supreme
- secure salvation, denied the infallibility of the councils of the Church and asserted that the Bible was the only foundation of faith and that bishops,