Pope Leo XIV marked a high point of his first foreign trip to Turkey with a pilgrimage to the site where early Christian church leaders met 1,700 years ago under the auspices of the Roman Emperor ...

İZNIK, Turkey (RNS) — For Christian leaders across the world and across denominations, the anniversary of the first Council of Nicaea is providing an opportunity for introspection and, potentially, ...

The Catholic Church this year marks the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical synod in the history of the Church, convened by Emperor Constantine in what is now the ...

ISTANBUL (RNS) — Before the newly resurfaced ruins of the Basilica of Neophytos, Pope Leo XIV joined with Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, hoping to recover the same spirit of unity that once ...

ANKARA, Turkey — Seeking to unify a recently decriminalized faith, Roman emperor Constantine the Great called a summit of early Christians in the ancient Anatolian city of Nicaea. The then-nascent ...

This raucous meeting, which took place exactly 1700 years ago, was one of the most important in Christian history. Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine and the fathers of the Council of Nicaea of ...

On Sunday, just ahead of his trip to Türkiye and Lebanon, Pope Leo XIV wrote about the 1700th Anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, which is the reason for his journey. The pontiff says the Council ...