General Church Councils
This title, when added to a council, indicates that the council represented all of Christendom.
Ecumenical
This council was the first to try to explain the relationship between God the Father and God the Son.
Nicaea
This Empress influenced Marcian to call the Council of Chalcedon.
Empress Pulcheria
Which heretic was the focus of arguments between Patriarch Dioscoros and Patriarch Flavian?
Eutyches
The Nicene Creed was a product of the Council of Nicaea, called in this year.
325
Who, other than the Pope, was able to call a church council?
Emperor
Constantinople I, claimed that the bishop/patriarch of this diocese held greater authority.
Rome
The council of Nicaea was called by this emperor; the first of his name.
Emperor Constantine I
Apollinarianism claimed that Jesus had a divine mind and a human, what?
Body
"Light from light, ____ God from ____ God"
True, true
How many Ecumenical Councils are universally agreed to have taken place?
7
The Council of Chalcedon rendered a judgement on this individual.
Patriarch Dioscoros
Patriarch Dioscoros called his own council to depose Patriarch Flavian. This was was later named, what?
The Council of Robbers
Arius claimed that Jesus was not fully God because he had, what?
A beginning
"Begotten, ___ ____"
Not made
This was the first church council to ever be called.
The Council of Jerusalem
This council addressed the question if you had to be Jewish to be Christian.
Council of Jerusalem
Emperor Marcian calls the Council of Chalcedon in this year.
451
The belief that humanity can achieve salvation completely on our own was first introduced by whom?
Pelagius
"__________ with the Father"
Consubstantial
Why was a church council called?
- One Word
Response
The Council of Chalcedon promulgated what canon, naming Constantinople second to Rome?
Canon 28
In 381, Emperor Theodosius I called this council.
Constantinople I
After the Western Roman Empire collapsed, this ancient heresy was found to be common among the barbarian invaders.
Arianism
The Holy Spirit was defined and added to the Nicene Creed at this council.
Constantinople I