Seven Ecumenical Councils
| year |
place |
during Emperor |
by the Patriarch and Pope |
against |
number of attendants |
number of rules |
| 1 |
325 |
Nicaea |
St
Emperor Constantine |
St. Mytrophanos of Constantinople / Sylvester |
Aries, arianism |
318 |
20 |
| 2 |
381 |
Constantinople |
Theodosios the Great |
St Grygorios the / Damasus |
Macedonios |
150 |
7 |
| 3 |
431 |
Ephesus |
Theodosios the younger (Theodosios II) |
St Cyril of Alexandria / Calestines |
Nestorius |
200 |
- |
| 4 |
451 |
Chalcedon |
Markyanus |
St Anatolios of Constantinople / Leo the Great |
Monophysite (Antich and Dyoskoros) |
630 |
- |
| 5 |
553 |
Constantinople |
St
Justinian I |
St Euthihios of Constantinople / Vigilius |
"three heads" |
165 |
- |
| 6 |
680 |
Constantinople |
Constantine Pogonatos |
St Grygorios of Constantinople / Agaton |
monothelites |
170 |
- |
| 7 |
787 |
Nicaea |
Constantine and Irini |
St Tarasios of Constantinople / Adrianos |
iconoclasts |
367 |
22 |
Nicaea Councils were two ecumenical councils
of the Christian church, held at Nicaea , a city of ancient Bithynia,
in Asia Minor. An Orthodox Church never stepped out of the definitions
of Nicean Councils.
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