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	CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF,
		The council of 691 was regarded in the East as supplementary to the previous ecumenical councils (the fifth and sixth) and is therefore known as the Quinisext Synod (Lat., “fifth-sixth”).
		The council condemned the worship of images; this position, however, was rejected by the seventh ecumenical council, held at Nicaea in 787, and the council of 754 was not recognized as ecumenical in the West.
		The seventh assembly at Constantinople was recognized in the East as the eighth ecumenical council of the church.
	www.history.com /encyclopedia.do?articleId=206371 (846 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Third Council of Constantinople
		Sixth General Council was summoned in 678 by Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, with a view of restoring between East and West the
		The council, attended in the beginning by 100 bishops, later by 174, was opened 7 Nov., 680, in a
		It had been invoked three times in previous sessions of the council in question by the stubborn Monothelite Macarius of Antioch, and had been publicly read in the twelfth session together with the letter of Sergius to which it replied.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04310a.htm (956 words)

	Council
		This council dealt with the question whether non-Jews could convert to Christianity (or Jesus-Judaism as it still was), as well as how to maintain Jewish with converts.
		Ecumenical councils began in 325 in Nicaea, in which bishops from all over the Christian world were represented.
		The 7 ecumenical councils were convened by the Byzantine emperor, the strongest Christian leader of the time.
	lexicorient.com /e.o/council.htm (272 words)

	Ecumenical councils - Theopedia
		Study of the canons of church councils is the foundation of the development of canon law, especially the reconciling of seemingly contradictory canons or the determination of priority between them.
		First Council of Constantinople, (381); revised the Nicene Creed into present form used in the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox churches and prohibited any further alteration of the Creed without the assent of an Ecumenical Council.
		Council of Chalcedon, (451); repudiated the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism, described and delineated the two natures of Christ, human and divine; adopted the Chalcedonian Creed.
	www.theopedia.com /Ecumenical_councils (517 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Constantinople,
		The son of the third Latin emperor (Porphyrogenitus means 'born to the purple,' thus 'of royal birth Baldwin inherited the throne on the death of his brother.
		Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomeos I of Constantinople, the spiritual head of millions of Orthodox Christians, has been honored with the 2002 Sophie Prize for his work in defending the environment.
		On Foot in Constantinople - Hidden in the modern Turkish city of Istanbul, under layers of Ottoman history, lie the vestiges of the capital of Byzantium.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Constantinople,&StartAt=11 (905 words)

	The Greek Orthodox Church of the Holy Cross - Studies in the Faith
		The Council of Constantinople of 448 strove mainly to ascertain whether Eutyches was in agreement with the epistle of Saint Cyril (referred to above) and with the words of the confession of John of Antioch.
		The Sixth Ecumenical Council was convoked in the year 680 under the Emperor Constantine IV (668-685) in the capital city of Constantinople (it is also known as the Third Council of Constantinople).
		This council was convoked to address the compromise sought between the Emperor Heraclius and Patriarch Sergius of Constantinople with the Monophysites earlier this century.
	www.goholycross.org /studies/councils.html (7898 words)

	Catholic Online - Prayers
		The Second Council of Constantinople (A.D. 553) This Council is sometimes referred to as the Council of the Three Chapters because its chief work was to condemn the writings and teaching of Theodore of Mopsuestia, the erroneous portions in the writings of Theodoret, and the letters of Ibas.
		The Council of Vienne (A.D. 1311 and 1312) The purpose of this Council was to settle the affair of the Templars, to advance the rescue of the Holy Land, and to reform abuses in the Church.
		The doctrinal decrees of the Council were: condemnation that the soul is not "in itself the essentially the form of the human body",; that sanctifying grace is infused into the soul at baptism; and denial that a perfect man is not subject to ecclesiastical and civil law.
	www.catholic.org /prayers/councils.php (1656 words)

	Ecumenical Councils - OrthodoxWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Fourth Council of Constantinople, (879-880); restored St. Photius the Great to his see in Constantinople and anathematized any who altered the Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed, abrogating the decrees of the Robber Council of 869-870.
		Fifth Council of Constantinople, (1341-1351); affirmed hesychastic theology according to St. Gregory Palamas and condemned the Westernized philosopher Barlaam of Calabria.
		The decisions of ‘the Councils of Constantinople in 1341 and 1351 on the Hesychast Controversy
	orthodoxwiki.org /Ecumenical_councils (990 words)

	A Brief History of the Holy Orthodox Church
		Council of Chalcedon affirms the Apostolic doctrine of two natures in Christ, condemns Eutychius for denying Christ's dual nature, confirms Biblical canon in a vague reference to the ancient canons, understood as including those of Carthage (4th E.C.).
		Third Council of Constantinople, upheld the reality of Christ's dual nature by condemning monothelism and monergianism, heresies which compromised the reality of Christ's humanity by asserting He has only one will or only one energy (principle of activity).
		Disciplinary session of the 6th Ecumenical Council, called the Trullan Synod or Quinsext Council by Western scholars established the rule of celibate bishops, while confirming the propriety of the advancement to the diaconate and priesthood of married men.
	orthodoxkansas.org /history.html (1044 words)

	Third Council of Constantinople : 680-681 A. D.
		The council assembled on 7 November in the hall of the imperial palace in Constantinople.
		The doctrinal conclusions of the council were defined in the 17th session and promulgated in the 18th and last session on 16 September 681.
		The acts of the council, signed both by 174 fathers and finally by the emperor himself, were sent to Pope Leo II, who had succeeded Agatho, and he, when he had approved them, ordered them to be translated into Latin and to be signed by all the bishops of the west.
	www.catholicsource.net /councils/ecum06.htm (685 words)

	All Ecumenical Councils - All the Decrees
		Third Council of Constantinople (680-681), under Pope Agatho and the Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, was attended by the Patriarchs of Constantinople and of Antioch, 174 bishops, and the emperor.
		Council of Constance (1414-1418), was held during the great Schism of the West, with the object of ending the divisions in the Church.
		Council of Basle (1431), Eugene IV being pope, and Sigismund Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire.
	www.piar.hu /councils/~index.htm (1185 words)

	21 Ecumenical Councils
		The councils are part of the glue of the Church and are extremely important because it is where the Church settles many issues about what God is saying in Scripture and what he is saying to his Church.
		Summary: The Third General Council of Constantinople, under Pope Agatho and the Emperor Constantine Pogonatus, was attended by the Patriarchs of Constantinople and of Antioch, 174 bishops, and the emperor.
		The Council of Constance was held during the great Schism of the West, with the object of ending the divisions in the Church.
	www.davidmacd.com /catholic/21_catholic_councils.htm (1733 words)

	Third Council of Constantinople - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Sixth Ecumenical Council met on November 7, 680 for its first session; it ended its meetings, said to have been eighteen in number, on September 16 of 681.
		The chief doctrinal conclusion of the council is that Jesus has two wills as well as two natures (divine and human), and that those two wills did not conflict with or strive against each other.
		The sessions of the council were held in the domed hall (or possibly chapel) in the imperial palace; which, the Acts tell us, was called Trullo (εν ώ σεκρετω του Θειου παλτιου τη ουτη λεγομενω Τρουλλω).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Third_Council_of_Constantinople (413 words)

	Constantinople — Infoplease.com
		Constantinople had a great wealth of artistic and literary treasures before it was sacked in 1204 and 1453.
		Fourth Council of Constantinople - Constantinople, Fourth Council of Constantinople, Fourth Council of, 869–70, regarded as the...
		Third Council of Constantinople - Constantinople, Third Council of Constantinople, Third Council of, 680, regarded by Roman Catholic...
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0813328.html (554 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: General Councils
		Lastly, in a council's decisions we see the highest expression of authority of which its members are capable within the sphere of their jurisdiction, with the added strength and weight resulting from the combined action of the whole body.
		Constantinople and Jerusalem, 71 archbishops, 412 bishops, and 800 abbots the Primate of the Maronites, and
		Councils in which the pope is represented by legates are, indeed, also representative of the whole teaching body of the Church, but the representation is not absolute or adequate, is no real concentration of its whole authority.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04423f.htm (12214 words)

	The First Seven Christian Church Councils
		This Jerusalem Council is not counted in the ecumenical councils of the Church which began after the Roman persecutions ended, and of which seven are considered binding by both the eastern and western churches.
		The Council of Nicea, held in Bithynia in Asia Minor and overseen by the Roman emperor Constantine, proclaimed the true manhood and true divinity of Jesus Christ and decreed the concept of the Trinity.
		In 869 A.D. a fourth Council of Constantinople was held to try to avert a schizm which had developed between the western and eastern churches over a western decision to place the phrase 'and from the son' into the Nicaen Creed regarding the procession of the Holy Spirit.
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	Creeds of the Christian Church
		The Council of Orange was an outgrowth of the controversy between Augustine and Pelagius.
		The Council of Orange dealt with the Semi-Pelagian doctrine that the human race, though fallen and possessed of a sinful nature, is still "good" enough to able to lay hold of the grace of God through an act of unredeemed human will.
		The Second Council of Constantinople was called to resolve certain questions that were raised by the Definition of Chalcedon, the most important of which had to do with the unity of the two natures, God and man, is Jesus Christ.
	www.godandscience.org /doctrine/creeds.html (4537 words)

	The Sixth Council of the Church
		The Third Council of Constantinople was quite unlike its predecessors in that it was not called at a crisis point to resolve a new and pressing question.
		The christological arguments of the seventh-century church were conducted with the Empire under almost constant military threat, and the urgency with which its rulers sought unity amongst Christians was as much provoked by the necessity of facing a common foe together, as by the desire to act upon Christ’s prayer for unity in John’s gospel.
		The Patriarchs of Antioch and Constantinople, Macarius and George respectively, declared in defence of monothelitism that their teaching had accorded with that of the Fathers and earlier councils.
	trushare.com /90NOV02/NO02GROV.htm (1980 words)

	MAJOR COUNCILS OF THE CHURCH: (councils.htm)
		Though the Council of Jerusalem (Acts 15 and Galatians 2) was the first Church Council, attended by the Apostles, the first Ecumenical (world-wide) Council was called by the Roman Emperor Constantine the Great with Pope Saint Sylvester I sitting on the Throne of Peter as the 33rd successor of Christ's appointed Apostle.
		Pope Agatho died during this Council and his successor Pope Saint Leo II continued it, approving the decrees of past Councils and taking to task one of his predecessors Pope Honorius I for not keeping the heresy of Monothelites in check, specifically not challenging the Patriarch of Constantinople Sergius who was spreading the heresy.
		The Council was called by the Empress Irene - the widow of the late Emperor Leo IV and mother of the Emperor Constantine IV - to head off the growing unrest with the Eastern Bishops who were spreading the heresy of Iconoclasm fostered by Emperor Leo III.
	www.dailycatholic.org /issue/2001Dec/councils.htm (1517 words)

	Constantinople, Third Council of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		The council was attended by more than 150 bishops from all over the world, and it was presided over by the papal legates.
		The Orthodox Church accepts as an ecumenical part of the Third Council of Constantinople the Council of 692, summoned by Justinian II, son and successor of Constantine.
		It is called in the West the Trullan Synod because it met in the Trullo, i.e., in the dome of the palace at Constantinople, or the Quinisext Synod [Lat.,=fifth-sixth] because it is considered in the East to supplement the fifth and sixth ecumenical councils.
	www.bartleby.com /65/co/Constnt3c.html (266 words)

	To Tell You The Whole Truth - The Church: The 21 Ecumenical (General) Councils of the Church
		It declared the authority of the Pope to be superior to that of a General Council.
		Declared that the teachings of the Council of Pisa were invalid since it did not have the Pope's approval.
		This Council declared the infallibility of the Pope, and reaffirmed the teachings of the Church.
	www.scborromeo.org /truth/c2.htm (545 words)

	Third Council of Constantinople
		The council was convened by Byzantine Emperor Constantine 4, and 100 bishops attended in the beginning, but this would rise to 174.
		The aim of the council was to establish a universal condemnation of Monothelitism.
		It was 127 years since the last council (Second of Constantinople) and it would be 106 years until the next (Second of Nicaea).
	i-cias.com /e.o/council_const3.htm (150 words)

	Monotheletism. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
		In 649, Pope St. Martin I convened a Lateran Council to condemn Monotheletism and was subsequently seized by the emperor, imprisoned, and exiled.
		The accession of Constantine IV to the imperial throne brought toleration for the Catholics.
		After the Council at Constantinople in 680, Monotheletism died out except among the Maronites in Syria.
	www.bartleby.com /65/mo/Monothel.html (428 words)

	Circle of Prayer - The Church in Crisis - A History of the General Councils 325 to 1870 - Chapter 6
		The sixth General Council was, in the intention of the emperor who called it, a "peace conference" that terminated sixty years of grave disorders.
		But Cyrus referred the monk to Constantinople, and Constantinople bade him be silent, and not start a new controversy, viz., whether in the Word Incarnate there were two "operations" or only one, but keep to the acknowledged teaching that the single person Jesus Christ works acts that are divine and also acts that are human.
		This convoy reached Constantinople in September, and the emperor forthwith ordered his new patriarch to summon all the metropolitans and bishops subject to him to attend a conference where the theory of "one operation" and "one will" would be examined.
	www.circleofprayer.com /church-crisis7.html (7830 words)

	A History of the General Councils - AD 325 through AD 1870 - Mgr. Philip Hughes
		But Cyrus referred the monk to Constantinople, and Constantinople bade him be silent, and not start a new controversy, viz., whether in the Word Incarnate there were two "operations" or only one, but keep to the acknowledged teaching that the single person Jesus Christ works acts that are divine and also acts that are human.
		This convoy reached Constantinople in September, and the emperor forthwith ordered his new patriarch to summon all the metropolitans and bishops subject to him to attend a conference where the theory of "one operation" and "one will" would be examined.
		At a later stage of the council (sixteenth session, August 9) a group of bishops, led by the patriarch of Constantinople, made a move to annul the anathematizing of the dead patriarchs Sergius, Pyrrhus, Paul, and Peter.
	www.christusrex.org /www1/CDHN/coun7.html (7071 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Diocese
		The chorepiscopi (en chora episkopoi), or rural bishops, were bishops, it is generally thought, as well as those of the towns; though from about the second half of the third century their powers were little by little curtailed, and they were made dependent on the bishops of the towns.
		In the West, the Council of Sardica (344) forbade in its sixth
		The Council of Trent restricted very much their authority, and since then the office of the archdeacon has gradually disappeared.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/05001a.htm (5222 words)

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