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The Not At All Secret History of Nicaea

May 21st, 2025 | 22 min read

By Susannah Black Roberts

This year, and this month of this year, mark 1700 years since the Council of Nicaea. On May 20, AD 325, the Emperor Constantine opened the Council with an address to the 318 bishops assembled. He was not a bishop and thus not a voting member of the council, but it was he who had urged the bishops to come together to sort through what was becoming an urgent problem in his empire. 

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Susannah Black Roberts

Susannah Black Roberts is senior editor at Plough. She is a native Manhattanite. She and her husband, the theologian Alastair Roberts, split their time between Manhattan and the West Midlands of the UK.

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