This meeting established prohibitions on practices including self- castration, kneeling during the liturgy, and usury by the clergy.
This meeting established prohibitions on practices including self- castration, kneeling during the liturgy, and usury by the clergy. This meeting also resolved a controversy involving a bishop who refused to grant communion to those who renounced their faith during the Diocletian persecution called the Meletian Schism. More importantly, it set the official date of Easter and condemned a heresy declaring that Jesus and God were not of the same substance, Arianism. FTP, name this first ecumenical council convened by Constantine and known for its namesake creed.
This meeting established prohibitions on practices including self- castration, kneeling during the liturgy, and usury by the clergy.
First Council of {Nicaea}