Council of Antioch (AD 325)
Key Facts:
| Date | early 325 |
| Location | Antioch |
| Number of Participants | 59 |
| Chaired by | Ossius of Cordova |
| Key Participants | Ossius of Cordova, Eustathius of Antioch, Eusebius of Caesarea |
| Key Issue | Arianism |
| Primary Source Descriptions | Letter of the Council of Antioch (Urk. 18, Doc. 20, CPG 8509) |
R.P.C. Hanson’s The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God (New York: T&T Clark, 1988) pp. 146-151 was consulted for the table above.
Surviving Documents:
Letter of the Council of Antioch
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2 Comments so far
A Seed Sower on 27 Aug 2008 at 12:17 pm #
can you please tell me if the following is true..”church elders first began to be called priests in the roman catholic church by Lucian in the 2nd century.” thank you
A Seed Sower
Glen Thompson on 03 Sep 2008 at 5:56 pm #
Dear Seed Sower: The English word “priest” is the normal translation (really a corrupted transliteration) for the Greek word “presbyteros” which was taken over into Latin as “presbyter.” The word already appears in the Greek New Testament of church leaders, usually translated “elders” (e.g. Acts 14.22, Titus 1.5, James 5.14, etc.), and was used as well in the Latin Vulgate. So quite clearly the word presbyteros/priest goes back to the first century church. What scholars do debate is when the term started defining a specific “office” in the church, and when that office began acquiring certain characteristics — a rank between deacon and episcopos/bishop; fixed duties; a requirement/preference for celibacy, etc. These developments took place at different times in different geographical areas over the 2nd to 5th centuries