chalcedon

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a former town on the Bosporus (now part of Istanbul); site of the Council of Chalcedon
Council of Chalcedon
(451) Fourth ecumenical council of the Christian Church, held in Chalcedon (modern Kadiköy, Turkey). Called by the emperor Marcian, it approved the creeds of Nicaea (325) and Constantinople (381, later known as the Nicene Creed) and rejected the Monophysite heresy. The council disciplined clergy and declared Jerusalem and Constantinople patriarchates
council of chalcedon
an ecumenical council of the Christian Church held in Chalcedon in 451