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Topic: Council of Constantinople

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: First Council of Constantinople
		This council was called in May, 381, by Emperor Theodosius, to provide for a Catholic succession in the patriarchal See of Constantinople, to confirm the Nicene Faith, to reconcile the semi-Arians with the Church, and to put an end to the Macedonian heresy.
		cit., XXII, 991), this was formally admitted for the new Latin patriarch, and in 1439, at the Council of Florence, for the Greek patriarch (Hefele-Leclercq, Hist.
		At the close of this council Emperor Theodosius issued an imperial decree (30 July) declaring that the churches should be restored to those bishops who confessed the equal Divinity of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and who held communion with Nectarius of Constantinople and other important Oriental prelates whom he named.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04308a.htm (831 words)

	Constantinople, First Council of - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The council drew up a dogmatic statement on the Trinity and defined Holy Spirit as having the same divinity expressed for the Son by the Council of Nicaea 56 years earlier.
		Gregory of Nazianzus was reinstated as bishop of Constantinople and then made president of the council when its first president, Meletius of Antioch, died.
		The fall of Constantinople: Judith Herrin tells the dramatic story of the final moments of Byzantine control of the imperial capital.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/C/Constnti1c.asp (392 words)

	Historical Documents (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Council of Ephesus - The third Ecumenical Council
		The Council of Chalcedon - The fourth Ecumenical Council
		Canons of Constantinople IV - The eighth Ecumenical Council
	www.pro-gospel.org /03/lk-003.php (116 words)

	Reference: Philosophers, Scientists and Theologians of the Middle Ages - By Miles Hodges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		This Council was called to try to settle a dispute between: 1) the Antiochene supporters of the Chalcedon formula, which emphasized the two natures (divine and human) of Christ and 2) the Monophysite Alexandrians with Cyril's formula, which stressed the oneness of Christ out of his two natures (the "hypostatic" union).
		Maximus was chief secretary to the emperor--who became a monk in 614, but who nonetheless continued to influence the empire greatly with his teachings on the two wills of Christ (in conformity to the two natures of Christ).
		In 1391 he was called back to Constantinople, to become prime minister to the Greek Emperor, Manuel II Palaeologus--a former student of his.
	www.newgenevacenter.org /reference/middle-ages2.htm (6339 words)

	Church History
		A Church in Crisis: History of the General Councils: 325-1870 A.D. by Msgr.
		The Fourth General Council of the Lateran, 1215
		The Council of Trullo - Quinsext Council, 692 A.D. The Crusades - Various Church documents
	www.catholicsource.net /church_history.htm (334 words)

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