Nicaea

Words with a similar base: First_Council_of_Nicaea, Nicaea, Second_Council_of_Nicaea

'Nicaea'

[nicaea.n.01] as in: an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325

'Nicaea'

[nicaea.n.02] as in: the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

'Nicaea'

[nicaea.n.03] as in: the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism