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Council of Ephesus
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 II
. This third
ecumenical council
, an effort to attain
consensus
in the church through an
assembly
representing all of
Christendom
, confirmed the original Nicene Creed , and condemned the teachings of
Nestorius
,
Patriarch of Constantinople
that the Virgin Mary may be called the
Christotokos
, "Birth Giver of Christ" but not the
Theotokos
, "Birth Giver of God". It met in June and July 431 at the
Church of Mary
in
Ephesus
in
Anatolia
.
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Council of Ephesus (disambiguation)
The
Council of Ephesus
was an Ecumenical Council that took place in 431 CE.
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