Definition of Nicaea
- 1. An ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325 Noun
- 2. The seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images Noun
- 3. The first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism Noun
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