First Council of Constantinople

First Council of Constantinople
First Council of Constantinople
	9th century Byzantine manuscript illumination of I Constantinople. Homilies of St. Gregory of Nazianzus, 879–883.
Date	381
Accepted by	Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church; Oriental Orthodoxy; Church of the East; Anglican Communion; Lutheranism; Calvinism;
Previous council	First Council of Nicaea
Next council	Council of Ephesus
Convoked by	Emperor Theodosius I
President	Timothy of Alexandria, Meletius of Antioch, Gregory Nazianzus, and Nectarius of Constantinople
Attendance	150 (no representation of Western Church)
Topics	Arianism, Holy Spirit
Documents and statements	Nicene Creed of 381, seven canons (three disputed)
	Chronological list of ecumenical councils

The First Council of Constantinople (Latin: Concilium Constantinopolitanum; Greek: Σύνοδος τῆς Κωνσταντινουπόλεως) was a council of Christian bishops convened in Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey) in AD 381 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius I.^[1]^[2] This second ecumenical council, an effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Christendom, except for the Western Church,^[3] confirmed the Nicene Creed, expanding the doctrine thereof to produce the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, and dealt with sundry other matters. It met from May to July 381^[4] in the Church of Hagia Irene and was affirmed as ecumenical in 451 at the Council of Chalcedon.

^ Socrates Scholasticus, Church History, book 5, chapters 8 & 11, puts the council in the same year as the revolt of Magnus Maximus and death of Gratian.
^ Hebblewhite, M. (2020). Theodosius and the Limits of Empire. pp. 56ff.
^ Richard Kieckhefer (1989). "Papacy". Dictionary of the Middle Ages. ISBN 0-684-18275-0.
^ "Catholic Encyclopedia: First Council of Constantinople". www.newadvent.org. Retrieved 2021-06-02.