Commemoration of the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils

On this Sunday according to the Julian Calendar, the Byzantine Rite of the Church commemorates the Holy Fathers of the First Six Ecumenical Councils.

In the Ninth Section of the Nicea-Constantinople Symbol-Creed of Faith compiled at the First and Second Ecumenical Councils, we confess our faith in “One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.” By virtue of the Catholic (Conciliar) nature of the Church, the Ecumenical Council is the Church’s supreme facility to resolve the major questions of religious life.

A true Ecumenical Council is comprised of archpastors, pastors, and representatives of all the local churches from every land of the “oikumene” (i.e. from the whole inhabited world which establishes the ecumenical basis of universality) of the Church, which is implied in the Greek word “kath’olon” translated as “catholic” in the English language version of the Nicene Creed.

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