According to the NY Times crossword, the answer is "Nicaea."
Roman Catholic AnswerThe first Ecumenical Council of the Church was the First Council of Nicaea, which, unsurprisingly was held at Nicaea as Councils are named after the town or location where they are held.
The historical city of Nicea, where early Christian ecumenical councils were held, is in modern-day Turkey on the Marmara and is known by the name İznik.
Because Henry was an English Catholic and held to the principles of that Church! This was, the Revelation of Christ, [Jude]. Its recording within Scripture and its completion, interpretation and the whole explained by the Holy fathers through the medium of the Seven Ecumenical Councils and the guidance of the Holy Ghost! [Acts 15.] Henry believed in eight ecumenical councils. Luther broke away from the Church as I have been told, but Henry did not, it was totally foreign to his ideas! What Henry did do was to tell the Bishop of Rome that he was breaking the canons of the Church!
No, councils receive their names from the places where they were held.
Roman Catholic AnswerThe last Ecumenical Council of the Church was Vatican Council II, held in the early 1960's at the Vatican. For a list list of all 21 Ecumenical Councils see the link below.
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Most sessions were held in the Vatican and at other locations in Rome and Italy.
Vatican Council I was the first Ecumenical Council to be held at the Vatican in Vatican City which is an independent country.
The Council of Trent took place in Trento, Italy, between the years 1545 and 1563. It was an important ecumenical council of the Catholic Church that addressed issues related to the Protestant Reformation.
The Anglican Church has never been less than a Communion of the Catholic Church in England, or wherever! It has then always held the beliefs of the Catholic Church. As Bishop Ken, the Non juror put it the belief of the Church of the first thousand years before the split between east and west.Anglican Catholic AnswerAt the Reformation they were faced with a choice or a series of choices.1. They passed a law in Convocation pointing out that the Bishop of Rome has no jurisdiction in this country2. In 1536, Convocation affirmed the English belief in the First Four Ecumenical Councils and all others sith,[since,]that time consonant to the same. Which most scholars accept as affirming the Seven Ecumenical Councils of Catholic antiquityThe above were re-affirmed in 1537,1546 and by parliament in 1559 and by Convocation again in 1572These laws, or canons confirmed Anglicanism's place in the Catholic Scheme of things.
Catholic AnswerIn northern Italy, in the town of Trento:.from A Catholic Dictionary, edited by Donald Attwater, Second edition, revised 1957Trent, The council of. The 19th ecumenical council held at Trent in the Austrian Tyrol, 1545-63, summoned for the purpose of combating Protestantism and reforming the discipline of the Church; the longest and one of the most important of all general councils