Constantinople

Words with a similar base: Constantinople, First_Council_of_Constantinople, Fourth_Council_of_Constantinople, Second_Council_of_Constantinople, Third_Council_of_Constantinople

'Constantinople'

[istanbul.n.01] as in: 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

'Constantinople'

[constantinople.n.02] as in: 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

'Constantinople'

[constantinople.n.03] as in: the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human

'Constantinople'

[constantinople.n.04] as in: the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic

'Constantinople'

[constantinople.n.05] as in: the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed