Constantina
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~ a Romanian resort city on the Black Sea
constantine
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~ Emperor of Rome who stopped the persecution of Christians and in 324 made Christianity the official religion of the Roman Empire; in 330 he moved his capital from Rome to Byzantium and renamed it Constantinople (280-337)
Constantine
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~ a walled city in northeastern Algeria to the east of Algiers; was destroyed in warfare in the 4th century and rebuilt by Constantine I
Constantinople
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~ the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed
Constantinople
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~ the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches
Constantinople
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~ the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
constantinople
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~ the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church
Constantinople
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~ the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic