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Gangra

Çankırı, Turkey

40.600, 33.616

Disputed. The canons exist. The exact year, often guessed around 340, is not secure.

Gangra, now
Now. Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Paphlagonian city of a mid-fourth-century synod that condemned extreme ascetics associated with Eustathius of Sebaste.

Sources

No separate modern citation is attached to this place. The confidence note above is the atlas summary of the evidence.

Cited notes

  • 340. Council of Gangra.

    See Councils page (sources there) · Unverified in the source note

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