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A ‘praiseworthy landmark’ as the Council of Nicaea marks its 1,700th anniversary

The Council of Nicaea in the year 325 was, arguably, the most theologically significant and influential gathering of Christians in post-apostolic church history. Martin Luther called it ‘the best and first general synod after that held by the holy apostles’. It produced a creed which, in the revised form sanctioned by the Council of Constantinople in the year 381, was soon being recited in all the churches as an act of worship. In many traditions it is still recited today.