Constantinople I — Second Ecumenical Council

Timeline Event · 381 CE

The council receives Nicene faith and confesses the Holy Spirit as Lord and giver of life.

Perspective note

Shared subject; this bundled record was originally written with an Orthodox-informed editorial lens.

People

Theodosius I
Gregory the Theologian

Primary sources

The received creed states:

The received Constantinopolitan creed confesses the Spirit as Lord and giver of life, worshiped with Father and Son.

the Lord and Giver-of-Life, who proceeds from the Father, who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified
— First Council of Constantinople, Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (Creed), trans. Henry Percival, Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume 14

Passage context and translation

The council confesses the Spirit's divine lordship and the Father's monarchy in the Creed received by the Church.

Before the excerpt

And [we believe] in the Holy Ghost,

After the excerpt

who spoke by the prophets.

Percival translation in Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Second Series, Volume 14; wording is a clause of the 381 Creed as presented in the linked edition.

Sources and further reading

OCA: The Seven Ecumenical Councils (Website)

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