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What does Nicaea mean?

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  1. (historical) An ancient city in Bithynia in Asia Minor, important during Roman and Byzantine times, on the site of modern-day İznik, Turkey, to which it gave its name. Famous as the site of first council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which composed the Nicene Creed.
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The second, convened at Nicaea in 787, formally revived the adoration of images and reunited the Eastern church with that of Rome.
As they witness to God's love for the world, our churches need to use the findings of contemporary science as did the Fathers of Nicaea.
They chose for the meeting a part of the sea-shore, in the Malian gulf, near Nicaea.
The decision in favour of the Athanasian view at Nicaea did not immediately end the controversy.
Pope Adrian I, who encouraged Western recognition of the iconodulic Council of Nicaea, also referred to the perspicuity of the icons.
Not only are they against the spirit and the letter of Anglican formularies, they are against one of the decrees of the Council of Nicaea, as we point out.

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