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The First Ecumenical Council:  The First Council of Nice

edited by Philip Schaff · NPNF II

NPNF2-14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils

Contents (40 chapters)

  1. 1. Historical Introduction.
  2. 2. The Nicene Creed.
  3. 3. Excursus on the Word Homousios.
  4. 4. Excursus on the Words γεννηθέντα οὐ ποιηθέντα.”
  5. 5. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon I.
  6. 6. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on the Use of the Word “Canon.”
  7. 7. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon II.
  8. 8. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon III.
  9. 9. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon IV.
  10. 10. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon V.
  11. 11. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on the Word Προσφέρειν.
  12. 12. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon VI.
  13. 13. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on the Extent of the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome Over the Suburbican Churches.
  14. 14. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon VII.
  15. 15. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on the Rise of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
  16. 16. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon VIII.
  17. 17. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on the Chorepiscopi.
  18. 18. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon IX.
  19. 19. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon X.
  20. 20. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon XI.
  21. 21. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on the Public Discipline or Exomologesis of the Early Church.
  22. 22. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon XII.
  23. 23. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon XIII.
  24. 24. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on the Communion of the Sick.
  25. 25. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon XIV.
  26. 26. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon XV.
  27. 27. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on the Translation of Bishops.
  28. 28. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon XVI.
  29. 29. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon XVII.
  30. 30. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on Usury.
  31. 31. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon XVIII.
  32. 32. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon XIX.
  33. 33. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on the Deaconess of the Early Church.
  34. 34. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Canon XX.
  35. 35. The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia. — Excursus on the Number of the Nicene Canons.
  36. 36. The Captions of the Arabic Canons Attributed to the Council of Nice.
  37. 37. Proposed Action on Clerical Celibacy.
  38. 38. The Synodal Letter.
  39. 39. On the Keeping of Easter.
  40. 40. Excursus on the Subsequent History of the Easter Question.

Source: CCEL