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The Holy Canons Constantinople I Canon 1

Canon 1 The Nicene faith confirmed and heresies anathematised

Κανόνες τῆς ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει Ἁγίας καὶ Οἰκουμενικῆς Β´ Συνόδου

The Second Ecumenical Council · Constantinople, 381 · convened by the emperor Theodosius the Great · Second Ecumenical Council: Constantinople I (381) on the map

The holy Fathers who assembled in Constantinople defined that the faith of the three hundred and eighteen Fathers who assembled at Nicaea in Bithynia is not to be set aside, but is to remain in force; and that every heresy be anathematised, and in particular that of the Eunomians or Eudoxians, and that of the Semi-Arians or Pneumatomachi, and that of the Sabellians, and that of the Marcellians, and that of the Photinians, and that of the Apollinarians.

Ὥρισαν οἱ ἐν Κωνσταντινουπόλει συνελθόντες ἅγιοι Πατέρες, μὴ ἀθετεῖσθαι τὴν πίστιν τῶν Πατέρων τῶν τριακοσίων δέκα ὀκτώ, τῶν ἐν Νικαίᾳ τῆς Βιθυνίας συνελθόντων· ἀλλὰ μένειν ἐκείνην κυρίαν, καὶ ἀναθεματισθῆναι πᾶσαν αἵρεσιν· καὶ εἰδικῶς τὴν τῶν Εὐνομιανῶν, εἴτ᾿ οὖν Εὐδοξιανῶν, καὶ τὴν τῶν Ἡμιαρείων, εἴτ᾿ οὖν Πνευματομάχων, καὶ τὴν τῶν Σαβελλιανῶν, καὶ τὴν τῶν Μαρκελλιανῶν, καὶ τὴν τῶν Φωτεινιανῶν, καὶ τὴν τῶν Ἀπολλιναριστῶν.

The Second Ecumenical Council, the canons

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