the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church
[ Syn: istanbul , stambul , stamboul , constantinople ]
the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches
[ Syn: constantinople , fourth council of constantinople ]
the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
[ Syn: constantinople , third council of constantinople ]
the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origens writings to be heretic
[ Syn: constantinople , second council of constantinople ]
the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed
[ Syn: constantinople , first council of constantinople ]