The council approved the current form of the Nicene Creed used in most Oriental Orthodox churches. The Eastern Orthodox Church uses the council's text but with the verbs expressing belief in the singular: Πιστεύω (I believe) instead of Πιστεύομεν (We believe). The Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church also uses the singular and, except in Greek, adds two phrases, Deum …

The First Council of the Lateran was the 9th ecumenical council recognized by the Catholic Church.It was convoked by Pope Callixtus II in December 1122, immediately after the Concordat of Worms.The council sought to bring an end to the practice of the conferring of ecclesiastical benefices by people who were laymen, free the election of bishops and abbots from secular …

Jan 26, 1996 · The Canons of the Fourth Lateran Council, 1215 . CANON 1. Text: We firmly believe and openly confess that there is only one true God, eternal and immense, omnipotent, unchangeable, incomprehensible, and ineffable, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost; three Persons indeed but one essense, substance, or nature absolutely simple; the Father (proceeding) from no one, …

Oct 10, 2012 · The council called between 2,000 and 2,500 bishops and thousands of observers, auditors, sisters, laymen and laywomen to four sessions at …

Jun 19, 2022 · The public statement issued by the World Council of Churches was a strong slap in the face of those responsible for the war in Ukraine. “The war, with the killing and all the other miserable consequences it entails, is incompatible with God’s very nature and will for humanity and against our fundamental Christian and ecumenical principles,” is described in a public …

The first divisions occurred in the East, when the dogmatic formulae of the Councils of Ephesus and Chalcedon were challenged, and later when ecclesiastical communion between the Eastern Patriarchates and the Roman See was dissolved. ... whom the ecumenical Council of Ephesus solemnly proclaimed to be the holy Mother of God, so that Christ ...