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Chalcedon, Council of
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Chalcedon, Council of

Ecumenical council of the early Christian church, convoked in 451 by the Roman emperor Marcian, and held at Chalcedon (now Kadiköy, Turkey). The council, attended by over 500 bishops, resulted in the Definition of Chalcedon, an agreed doctrine for both the Eastern and Western churches.

The council was assembled to repudiate the ideas of Eutyches on Jesus' divine nature subsuming the human; it also rejected the Monophysite doctrine that Jesus had only one nature, and repudiated Nestorianism. It reached a compromise definition of Jesus' nature intended to satisfy all factions: Jesus was one person in two natures, united ‘unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly, inseparably’.



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The Armenian schism dates from after the Council of Chalcedon in 451.
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Although it was actively involved and accepted the fundamental doctrines from the first three ecumenical councils (Nicea, 325 CE; Constantinople, 381 CE; and Ephesus, 431 CE), it was not part of the Council of Chalcedon in 431 CE which defined the two natures of Christ.
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Twenty years later the Council of Chalcedon, strongly influenced by a letter written by Pope Leo the Great, declared that Christ possessed two natures, the divine and the human, united in one person and existing in that one person "without confusion or change, and without division or separation.
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