Portrait of Ecumenical Councils

Fathers

Ecumenical Councils

The great councils

The ecumenical councils (325–787) were gatherings of bishops that the wider church received as decisive. Nicaea, Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon, and the later councils in Constantinople and Nicaea settled how the church speaks of the Trinity and of Christ.

Dates
325–787
Role
The great councils
See
Various

Patrista files their creeds, canons, and related acts together. They are not the work of one father. They are the church’s common decisions, and the fathers on this page wrote, argued, and preached around them.

Writings