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First Council of Nicaea: Quick Facts

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Facts

Date 325
Location İznik • Turkey
Participants history of early Christianity

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First Council of Nicaea
Lithograph illustration by Carel Christiaan Antony Last showing robed figures burning books before Emperor Constantine and church officials during the First Council of Nicaea.
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Arius
Arius
Christian priest
Constantine I
Constantine I
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Eusebius of Nicomedia
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Saint Eustathius of Antioch
bishop of Antioch