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    The Council of Ephesus was a council of Christian bishops convened in Ephesus (near present-day Selçuk in Turkey) in AD 431 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius...
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  • Second Council of Ephesus was a Christological church synod in 449 convened by Emperor Theodosius II under the presidency of Pope Dioscorus I of Alexandria...
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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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  • destruction of various pagan places of worship. The apostle John has his grave in Ephesus. Polycrates of Ephesus (Greek: Πολυκράτης) was a bishop at Ephesus in...
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    Eusebius of Nicomedia, Paulinus of Tyrus, Actius of Lydda, Menophantus of Ephesus, and Theognus of Nicaea. The main purpose of the Council was to resolve...
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    website of the terrace houses of Ephesus Coinage of Ephesus The Theatre at Ephesus Photos from Ephesus (2015) This Is What The Ancient Greek City Ephesus Most...
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    best-documented of the first seven ecumenical councils. The principal purpose of the council was to re-assert the teachings of the ecumenical Council of Ephesus against...
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    God". The debate about the single or dual nature of Christ ensued in Ephesus. The First Council of Ephesus debated miaphysitism (two natures united as one...
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  • The Third Council of Ephesus was held in the Anatolian city of Ephesus in 475. It was presided over by Pope Timothy II of Alexandria, and also attended...
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  • include the Council of Jerusalem (c. 50), the Council of Rome (155), the Second Council of Rome (193), the Council of Ephesus (193), the Council of Carthage...
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    which led to further fracturing of the State church of the Roman Empire. Emperor Theodosius II called two synods in Ephesus, one in 431 and one in 449, that...
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  • public opposition from Eusebius came the summoning of a council in Ephesus to settle the problem of his teachings, where Nestorius was ultimately deposed...
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    discussion of Trinitarian doctrine now developed, the focus of discussion changed to Christology, which would be the topic of the Council of Ephesus of 431 and...
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    Councils were convened. First Council of Nicaea (325) First Council of Constantinople (381) First Council of Ephesus (431) Council of Chalcedon (451) These...
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    period after the First Council of Ephesus in 431 witnessed gradual growth in the use of Marian prayers during the Middle Ages. The practice of meditation during...
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    Nestorian schism (category Church of the East)
    Cyril (Patriarch of Alexandria) and Nestorius (Patriarch of Constantinople). The First Council of Ephesus in 431 and the Council of Chalcedon in 451 condemned...
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    Eutyches (category People declared heretics by the first seven ecumenical councils)
    Eutyches of Constantinople was a presbyter and archimandrite at Constantinople. He first came to notice in 431 at the First Council of Ephesus, for his...
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    devotion first rose to great importance, following the First Council of Ephesus of 431. It is one of the earliest churches known to have been dedicated to...
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    already been in established use. The Council of Ephesus was long thought to have been held at a church in Ephesus which had been dedicated to Mary about...
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  • The First Council of Constantinople. Schaff 1916, p. 231, Ch. IV The Council of Ephesus, Canon VII. Schaff 1916, p. 232, Ch. IV The Council of Ephesus, Excursus...
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    preparations for the Council of Ferrara–Florence, and as Metropolitan of Ephesus and delegate for the Patriarch of Alexandria, he was one of the most important...
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  • the First Council of Ephesus in 431 and the Council of Chalcedon twenty years later and the approval of the doctrine of the hypostatic union of the two...
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    The First Council of Lyon (Lyon I) was the thirteenth ecumenical council, as numbered by the Catholic Church, taking place in 1245. The First General...
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  • Evagrius Scholasticus (category Historians of Justinian I)
    six-volume collection concerning the Church's history from the First Council of Ephesus (431) to the emperor Maurice’s reign until Scholasticus' death...
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  • with Cyril of Alexandria. In the year 431, he arrived too late for the opening meeting of the First Council of Ephesus. Cyril, suspecting John of using procrastinating...
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    the dominant religion in all Asian provinces of the Eastern Roman Empire. After the First Council of Ephesus in 431 and the Nestorian Schism, the Nestorian...
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    The First Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the First Vatican Council or Vatican I, was the 20th ecumenical council of the Catholic...
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    Oriental Orthodox Church. First Council of Ephesus Miaphysitism Monophysitism Nestorianism Oriental Orthodoxy Second Council of Constantinople Manolis Chatzidakis...
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    person of Theodore of Mopsuestia (died 428), certain writings against Cyril of Alexandria's Twelve Anathemas accepted at the Council of Ephesus, written...
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    Councils of Nicaea and Constantinople in 325 and 381 respectively, and ratified as the universal creed of Christendom by the First Council of Ephesus...
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