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Seven Ecumenical Councils

year place during Emperor by the Patriarch and Pope against number of attendants number of rules
1 325

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Nicaea councils

St Emperor Constantine

St. Mytrophanos of Constantinople / Sylvester

Aries, arianism

318

20

2 381 Constantinople

Theodosios the Great

St Grygorios the / Damasus

Macedonios

150

7

3 431 Ephesus

Theodosios the younger (Theodosios II)

St Cyril of Alexandria / Calestines

Nestorius

200

-

4 451 Chalcedon

Markyanus (Marcian)

St Anatolios of Constantinople / Leo the Great

Monophysite (Antich and Dyoskoros)

630

-

5 553 Constantinople

St Justinian I

St Euthihios of Constantinople / Vigilius

"three heads"

165

-

6 680 Constantinople

Constantine Pogonatos

St Grygorios of Constantinople / Agaton

monothelites

170

-

7 787 Nicaea

Constantine and Irini

St Tarasios of Constantinople / Adrianos

iconoclasts

367

22

Nicaea Councils were two ecumenical councils of the Christian church, held at Nicaea , a city of ancient Bithynia, in Asia Minor. An Orthodox Church never stepped out of the definitions of Nicean Councils.

 

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