NICENE CREED

The confe ion of faith in which the con substantiality of the Father and Son is a erted against the Arians. {See art. Arians.) This creed was commenced by the council of Nice, a. D. 325, and completed by the second general council of Constantinople, a. d. 381. But the words "and the Son," after those " who proceed eth from the Father," were added by the Latin church (certainly before A. d. 411), expre ing a point of doctrine in which it differs from the Greek. The Nicene creed was generally used by the Eastern churches in the administration of baptism; but was not inserted in their daily service till the fifth century. In the service of the church of Rome it was inscribed A..D. 1014., [s. 838]