Constantinople Meaning

There are 5 meaning(s) for word Constantinople

Meaning 1 : the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed

    Synonyms : first council of constantinople
Meaning 2 : the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic

    Synonyms : second council of constantinople
Meaning 3 : the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human

    Synonyms : third council of constantinople
Meaning 4 : 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

    Synonyms : fourth council of constantinople
Meaning 5 : the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Chu

    Synonyms : istanbul,  stamboul,  stambul


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