Search Result:Nicaea
Overview of noun nicaea
The noun nicaea has 3 senses
- Nicaea -- (an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325)
- Nicaea, Second Council of Nicaea -- (the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images)
- Nicaea, First Council of Nicaea -- (the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism)