Sort of interesting.
Wouldn't it be magnificent to have a new ecumenical council near The Hagia Sophia?
Today in #history: The First Council of Nicaea is formally opened, starting the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church. (325 CE) #OnThisDay pic.twitter.com/MMJv2eIm7f
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Wouldn't it be magnificent to have a new ecumenical council near The Hagia Sophia?
Church politics, at least as old as the church itself.Quote:
The council attempted but failed to establish a uniform date for Easter. It issued decrees on many other matters, including the proper method of consecrating bishops, a condemnation of lending money at interest by clerics, and a refusal to allow bishops, priests, and deacons to move from one church to another. It also confirmed the primacy of Alexandria and Jerusalem over other sees in their respective areas. Socrates Scholasticus, a 5th-century Byzantine historian, said that the council intended to make a canon enforcing celibacy of the clergy, but it failed to do so when some objected.