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Council of Nicaea

A group of men in formal attire sits around a table in a dimly lit room with a large cross on the wall, illuminated by beams of light from above, evoking the historical setting of the Council of Nicaea.

The first ecumenical council of the Christian church, convened by Emperor Constantine in 325 CE at what is now İznik in Turkey. It produced the Nicene Creed and settled the date of Easter, anchoring it to the spring equinox and the lunar cycle. That anchoring is the reason the Julian calendar's drift mattered: when the equinox slipped, Easter slipped with it, and the whole liturgical year fell out of joint.

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