ECCLESIASTICAL

or i gio meetings or synods of the clergy of y or district, convened to discu and © questions of Church discipline and tine. When Const an tine adopted stianity as the religion of the Roman jire, he summoned an cecumenical cil, that js, a council of the whole rch, at Nicra, in Bithynis. to settle Arian controversy respecting our i's divinity. Such conncils contizaed e summoned by the Emperors in the;, and afterwards by the Popes in the t. The four general councils recozi by all the Churches are those of pa (325), Constantinople (381), esus (431), and Chalcedon (451). [s. 110]