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Various Church Fathers
The First Ecumenical Council: The First Council of Nice.
Translated by ANF/NPNF editors
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(English) · Translated by ANF/NPNF editors
Contents 40 sections
- Title Page.Front matter
- Historical Introduction.
- Excursus on the Word Homousios.
- Excursus on the Words γεννηθέντα οὐ ποιηθέντα.”
- Canon I.
- Excursus on the Use of the Word “Canon.”
- Canon II.
- Canon III.
- Canon IV.
- Canon V.
- Excursus on the Word Προσφέρειν.
- Canon VI.
- Excursus on the Extent of the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome Over the Suburbican Churches.
- Canon VII.
- Excursus on the Rise of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
- Canon VIII.
- Excursus on the Chorepiscopi.
- Canon IX.
- Canon X.
- Canon XI.
- Excursus on the Public Discipline or Exomologesis of the Early Church.
- Canon XII.
- Canon XIII.
- Excursus on the Communion of the Sick.
- Canon XIV.
- Canon XV.
- Excursus on the Translation of Bishops.
- Canon XVI.
- Canon XVII.
- Excursus on Usury.
- Canon XVIII.
- Canon XIX.
- Excursus on the Deaconess of the Early Church.
- Canon XX.
- Excursus on the Number of the Nicene Canons.
- The Captions of the Arabic Canons Attributed to the Council of Nice.
- Proposed Action on Clerical Celibacy.
- The Synodal Letter.
- On the Keeping of Easter.
- Excursus on the Subsequent History of the Easter Question.
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