Word: nicaea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Latin parchment document of the papal bull began in the traditional way: "John, Bishop, Servant of the Servants of God." Thus, on Christmas morning, Pope John XXIII was to convoke Vatican Council II-potentially an event in Roman Catholic history on the order of the Councils of Nicaea, Constantinople or Trent...
Vatican officials have been busy with preparations ever since Pope John said in January 1959 that he intended to call the church's first council since Vatican Council I in 1869-70, and the 20th since Nicaea in 325. As a start, every Catholic bishop in the world was asked what topics the council should consider; the 2,150 replies (called postulata) have been compiled into a secret, 20-volume report from which the agenda will be drawn. Decisions on that agenda will be made, according to majority vote, by more than 2,000 cardinals, archbishops, bishops, abbots...
...Emperor Constantine. disturbed because the Arian heresy had started a squabble among his bishops that threatened the internal and external security of the Roman world, summoned the Council of Nicaea, banged episcopal heads together until the bishops agreed on the Nicene Creed, a concise statement of belief that runs in the Latin version to only 162 words, yet managed to postpone religious schism for 700 years...