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Published on 01/06/2025 – 16:18 GMT+2•Updated
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul on Sunday, marking the 1,700th anniversary of Christianity’s first ecumenical council.
The first Council of Nicaea (situated in modern day Turkey, within the ciy of İznik) came about in 325 AD and the date stays vital to Orthodox-Catholic family members.
It noticed Roman Emperor Constantine I convey in combination some 300 bishops, in line with the Catholic Almanac.
Among the results used to be the Nicene Creed, a career of religion this is nonetheless recited through Christians as of late and required of the ones endeavor vital purposes inside the Orthodox, in addition to the Catholic and Lutheran Churches.
As Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I is “primus inter pares” (first amongst equals) a few of the patriarchs of the Eastern Orthodox Church and is its religious chief.
Bartholomew, who is understood for his ecumenical in addition to humanitarian and ecological efforts, had met with Pope Leo XIV previous this week for the primary time.
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