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    The Council of Chalcedon (/kælˈsiːdən, ˈkælsɪdɒn/; Latin: Concilium Chalcedonense) was the fourth ecumenical council of the Christian Church. It was convoked...
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    Chalcedon Chalcedon (/ˈkælsɪˌdɒn, kælˈsiːdən/; Ancient Greek: Χαλκηδών, romanized: Khalkēdṓn; sometimes transliterated as Khalqedon) was an ancient maritime...
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  • Definition of Chalcedon) is a declaration of Christ's nature (that it is dyophysite), adopted at the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451. Chalcedon was an early...
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  • the branches of Christianity that accept and uphold theological resolutions of the Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council, held in 451....
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    381 in the Church of Hagia Irene and was affirmed as ecumenical in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon. Between 350 and 450 a number of heresies arose, forcing...
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  • explicitly repudiated by the next council, the Council of Chalcedon of 451, recognised as the fourth ecumenical council by Chalcedonian Christians, and...
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    Orthodox Pope of Alexandria and Patriarch of All Africa. Almost the entire Egyptian population rejected the terms of the Council of Chalcedon and remained...
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  • Catechetical Orations in the Syriac language. In 451, the Ecumenical Council of Chalcedon promulgated the Chalcedonian Definition. It agreed with Theodore...
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  • comprises the branches of Christianity that do not accept theological resolutions of the Council of Chalcedon, the Fourth Ecumenical Council, held in 451. Non-Chalcedonian...
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    in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Council of Chalcedon in 451, the Second Council of Constantinople in 553, the Third Council of Constantinople...
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    First Council of Constantinople were adopted only with the 451 Council of Chalcedon, 20 years after that of Ephesus, and even that the Council of Ephesus...
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    condemned as heretical by the Council of Chalcedon (451). Miaphysitism (Oriental Orthodox churches): In the person of Jesus Christ, divine nature and...
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    concerning the nature of Christ, the Oriental Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Orthodox Church were in schism after the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, resulting...
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  • the Council of Chalcedon. and was an important step in the schism between the Armenian Church and the Byzantine and Georgian Churches. The Council of Chalcedon...
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    imperial Roman church before the Council of Chalcedon in 451 AD, and with the Church of the East until the Council of Ephesus in AD 431, separating primarily...
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    'well-spoken [of]'), known as the All-praised in the Eastern Orthodox Church, was a virgin martyr, who died for her faith at Chalcedon in 303 AD. According...
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    Pope Leo I (category Year of birth unknown)
    of the Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council. That meeting dealt primarily with Christology and elucidated the orthodox definition of Christ's...
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  • Nestorianism (category Church of the East)
    were eventually condemned as heretical at the Council of Ephesus in 431, and again at the Council of Chalcedon in 451. His teachings were considered as heretical...
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    were convened. First Council of Nicaea (325) First Council of Constantinople (381) First Council of Ephesus (431) Council of Chalcedon (451) These were mostly...
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    Dioscorus the Great, was the pope of Alexandria and patriarch of the See of St. Mark who was deposed by the Council of Chalcedon in 451. He was recognized as...
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  • Monophysitism (category Nature of Jesus Christ)
    by the divine, leaving only a divine nature. In 451, the Council of Chalcedon, on the basis of Pope Leo the Great's 449 declaration, defined that in Christ...
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    Copts (category Indigenous peoples of North Africa)
    Timothy of Alexandria, while the Council of Ephesus (431 AD) was presided over by Cyril of Alexandria. In 451 AD, following the Council of Chalcedon, the...
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    431, the Church of the East also shared in this communion, as did the various Oriental Orthodox Churches before the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, all...
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  • Council of Ephesus of 449, also held in Anatolia, was called by the Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II and, though annulled by the Council of Chalcedon,...
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    with the issue of the two natures of Christ, as monophysitism had spread through Christianity despite the decisions of Chalcedon. The council met from 5 May...
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    it stems from Canon 28 of the Council of Chalcedon. The patriarch's see, the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople is one of the most enduring institutions...
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    10-11 million[citation needed]. In 451 the Council of Chalcedon was held to clarify the issue further. The council ultimately stated that Christ's divine...
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    traditionally defined by those Churches that adhere to the Council of Chalcedon, the divine nature of the Son was united but not mixed with human nature in...
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  • Miaphysitism (category Nature of Jesus Christ)
    of God made flesh" (or "... of God the Word made flesh"). The 451 Council of Chalcedon used physis to mean "nature" (as in "divine nature" and "human nature")...
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    accepted the Council of Chalcedon similarly classified those who rejected it as Monophysite heretics. The Churches that refused to accept the Council considered...
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