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The Council of Ephesus was a council of Christian bishops convened in Ephesus (near present-day Selçuk in Turkey) in AD 431 by the Roman Emperor Theodosius II. This third ecumenical council confirmed the original Nicene Creed, and condemned the teachings of Nestorius, Patriarch of Constantinople, that the Virgin Mary may be called the Christotokos, "Birth Giver of Christ" but not the Theotokos, "Birth Giver of God". It met in June and July 431 at the Church of Mary in Ephesus in Anatolia.
Works
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[edit]- The Third Ecumenical Council, translated by Philip Schaff et al.
Works about the Council of Ephesus
[edit]- "Ephesus, Council of," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
- "Council of Ephesus," in Catholic Encyclopedia, (ed.) by Charles G. Herbermann and others, New York: The Encyclopaedia Press (1913)
- Nestorius and His Place in the History of Christian Doctrine by Friedrich Loofs (1914)