The Council Names Date
First Council of Nicaea 325 AD
First Council of Constantinople
Council of Ephesus
Council of Chalcedon
Second Council of Constantinople
Third Council of Constantinople
Second Council of Nicaea
Topics Discussed
Called because of a false doctrine by the Alexandrian
priest, who rejected the Divine nature and eternal
birth of the Divine Son of God
The council came to the agreement that the Son of
God is true God and ever eternal and exiled the priest.
This council also resolved to celebrate Easter on the
first Sunday after the first full moon following the
spring equinox, after the Jewish Passover.
381 AD The Arian Bishop of Constantinople rejected the third
entity in the Holy Trinity: The Holy Spirit. He
believed he was a creature (like an angel).
The council exiled this heresy as they agreed the
Holy Spirit is an equal and single essence of God.
431 AD The Archbishop of Constantinople claimed that Lord
Jesus Christ was God-bearing, not God-incarnate
The Council condemned the heresy and decreed that
Jesus Christ is two natures, divine and human, and
one should confess Jesus Christ as true God and true
Man.
451 AD An archimatridine of Constantinople created a false
doctrine called Monophysitism, and followers of it are
called Monophysites.
The council condemned the followers and this false
doctrine, and defined the true teaching of the Church,
namely that our Lord Jesus Christ is perfect God, and
as God He is eternally born from God.
553 AD More false scriptures of different priests and they too
were condemned while some were pardoned.
680-681 AD Again, condemned heresy against belief that Jesus
Christ does not have two energies and two wills
(divine and human).
787 AD Veneration of the holy icons was finally restored and
affirmed by the local synod of Constantinople in 843
A.D., under the Empress Theodora.
At this council, in thanksgiving to the Lord God for
having given the Church victory over the iconoclasts
and all heretics, the celebration of the Triumph of
Orthodoxy was established on the first Sunday of
Great Lent, which is celebrated by the Orthodox
Church throughout the world.