nicaea
Nouns
- (n) an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325
- (n) the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images Second Council of Nicaea,
- (n) the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism First Council of Nicaea,