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First Council of Constantinople
The
First Council of Constantinople
(
Konstantinoúpolis
) was a council of Christian bishops convened in
Constantinople
in
AD
381 by the
Roman Emperor
Theodosius I
. This second
ecumenical council
, an effort to attain
consensus
in the church through an
assembly
representing all of
Christendom
, 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 in the
Church of Hagia Irene
and was affirmed as ecumenical in 451 at the
Council of Chalcedon
.
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