council-site
Ancyra
Ankara, Turkey
39.933, 32.859
Attested. The 314 canons survive. The 358 meeting is well reported. The exact session date within 314 is approximate.
Galatian capital. A council in 314 issued canons on Christians who had lapsed under persecution. In 358 Basil of Ancyra led a Homoiousian meeting here: the Son is like the Father in substance. That was not a compromise drafted at Nicaea in 325.
Sources
No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.
Cited notes
314. Council of Ancyra on the lapsed.
See Councils page (sources there) · Unverified in the source note
Further reading
Councils here
- Ancyra (314)