Constantinople (Noun)
Meaning 1
The council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 2
The largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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Nouns denoting spatial position.
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Meaning 3
The second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
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Meaning 4
The sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human.
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Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.
Examples
- The Third Council of Constantinople played a pivotal role in shaping the understanding of Christ's nature in the early Christian church.
- In 680-681, the sixth ecumenical council convened in Constantinople to address the controversy of Monothelitism.
- Emperor Constantine IV presided over the Third Council of Constantinople, which reaffirmed the teaching of the two natures of Christ.
- The Council in Constantinople reinforced the doctrine of two wills in Christ, establishing a benchmark for Christian orthodoxy.
- .Constantinople was the site of a pivotal theological formulation that rejected Monothelitism in favor of a more nuanced understanding of Christ's person.
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Meaning 5
The fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic.
Classification
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects.