Constantinople

Meanings by context

CommonParlance
- definition the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches
- definition the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
- definition the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic
- definition the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed