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⭐ Join our exclusive club and get access to special episodes, previews, appearing in videos, a private members chat, and much more! / @storiopolis The Catholic Church considers that of all its councils held, only 21 of them deserve the name of ecumenical, which means Universal, where all the churches in communion with Christ were present or in agreement with its decrees. However, the first 7 of these 21 stand out for having shaped the Church of the first millennium, and above all, it stands out because those First 7 Ecumenical Councils were able to reunite the West with the East, with the addition that all of them were held in the East. After the Seventh, Eastern Christianity would never again be part of Rome. The first 4 tried to stop the spread of heretical doctrines and internal divisions. And they largely succeeded. The first was held in Nicaea in 325, where Arianism was condemned. The second took place in Constantinople in 381, where Macedonianism was condemned. The third was in Ephesus in 431, which condemned Nestorianism. The fourth was in Chalcedon in 451, where Monophism was condemned. The last three were not only about stopping heresies, but also about maintaining the unity of both Rome and Constantinople and the other patriarchal churches: Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem. Constantinople II was in 553, Constantinople III in 680, and the last, Nicaea II, was held in 787. Iconoclasm, the rejection of the cult of images, was condemned there. The history of the Church is the history of Europe, and therefore, it is also the history of the world. The foundations of that history are well documented in the First 7 Ecumenical Councils, and that is what we are going to see today in Storiopolis. Sources The Councils of the Church, by Norman Tanner https://www.amazon.es/Los-concilios-I... History of the Councils, by David Abadías Aurín https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/histo... History of the Ecumenical Councils, Giuseppe Alberigo https://articulo.mercadolibre.com.ar/... #church #council #romanempire #history