A wall fresco depicting the First Council of Nicaea in the Sistine hall of the Vatican Library. (CNS photo/Carol Glatz) The various liturgical calendars in use throughout most of Christianity feature ...

IZNIK, Turkey —On the second day of his inaugural foreign trip, Pope Leo XIV visited the site where early Christian leaders met 1,700 years ago for the First Council of Nicaea — the gathering that ...

ROME (Reuters) -Pope Francis said on Thursday he planned to visit Turkey's Iznik next year for the anniversary of the first council of the Christian Church, Italian news agency ANSA reported. The ...

Centuries of church schisms show that if there’s a doctrine to be fought over, there’s a good chance Christians will fight about it. That repeated splintering is what makes the Council of Nicaea — a ...

ROME — Pope Francis said on Thursday that he hopes to travel to Turkey next year to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, Christianity’s first ecumenical council. The visit to ...

VATICAN CITY — In an ecumenical meeting with a Lutheran delegation on Monday, Pope Francis pointed to the upcoming 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea as a source of unity between Christians. ...

Pope Francis might be traveling to Turkey next year for the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, according to Eastern Orthodox Patriarch of Constantinople Bartholomew in comments he ...

Organised by the Pontifical Gregorian University and the University of Münster, an international conference will take place in Rome next week that focuses on the Council of Nicaea 1700 years ago and ...

The ruins of the church where the First Council of Nicaea met may have been found . . . under a lake. Has the podcast bubble burst? “Panoply, the podcasting unit set up by Slate magazine, recently ...