nicaea

Noun

• the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism

• the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

• an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Nicaea , First Council of Nicaea , Second Council of Nicaea