1. (noun) the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

• second council of nicaea

2. (noun) the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism

• first council of nicaea

1. (noun) the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images

• ecumenical council

2. (noun) the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism

• ecumenical council

1. (noun) an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325

• nicaean
• nicene