Look up: Nicaea

1. Nicaea
   Ruined city (modern Iznik) in Turkey, capital of the ancient kingdom of Bithynia. It was the site of the Council of Nicaea in 325 and of another ecumenical council in 787. Between 1205 and 1261 it...
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2. Nicaea
   First Council of Nicaea noun the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism
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3. Nicaea
   noun an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325
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4. Nicaea
   noun the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images
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5. Nicaea
   Nicaea (nīsē'u) , city of Bithnyia, N Asia Minor, built in the 4th cent. B.C. by Antigonus I as Antigonia and renamed Nicaea by Lysimachus for his wife. It flourished under the Romans and was the scene of the ecumenical council called in A.D. 325 by Constantine I. Another council hel...
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