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The First Ecumenical Council:  The First Council of Nice

edited by Philip Schaff · NPNF II

NPNF2-14. The Seven Ecumenical Councils

Contents (36 chapters)

The Canons of the 318 Holy Fathers Assembled in the City of Nice, in Bithynia.

  1. 1. Canon I.
  2. 2. Excursus on the Use of the Word “Canon.”
  3. 3. Canon II.
  4. 4. Canon III.
  5. 5. Canon IV.
  6. 6. Canon V.
  7. 7. Excursus on the Word Προσφέρειν.
  8. 8. Canon VI.
  9. 9. Excursus on the Extent of the Jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome Over the Suburbican Churches.
  10. 10. Canon VII.
  11. 11. Excursus on the Rise of the Patriarchate of Jerusalem.
  12. 12. Canon VIII.
  13. 13. Excursus on the Chorepiscopi.
  14. 14. Canon IX.
  15. 15. Canon X.
  16. 16. Canon XI.
  17. 17. Excursus on the Public Discipline or Exomologesis of the Early Church.
  18. 18. Canon XII.
  19. 19. Canon XIII.
  20. 20. Excursus on the Communion of the Sick.
  21. 21. Canon XIV.
  22. 22. Canon XV.
  23. 23. Excursus on the Translation of Bishops.
  24. 24. Canon XVI.
  25. 25. Canon XVII.
  26. 26. Excursus on Usury.
  27. 27. Canon XVIII.
  28. 28. Canon XIX.
  29. 29. Excursus on the Deaconess of the Early Church.
  30. 30. Canon XX.
  31. 31. Excursus on the Number of the Nicene Canons.
  1. 32. The Captions of the Arabic Canons Attributed to the Council of Nice.
  2. 33. Proposed Action on Clerical Celibacy.
  3. 34. The Synodal Letter.
  4. 35. On the Keeping of Easter.
  5. 36. Excursus on the Subsequent History of the Easter Question.

Source: CCEL