Patriarch of Constantinople marks 1,700 years since Christianity's first ecumenical council

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00:00Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul on Sunday to mark 1,700 years since the first General Council of the Christian Church,

00:12held in the ancient city of Nicaea and modern-day Turkey in 325 AD.

00:18The Nicaea Council remains important to Orthodox Catholic relations,

00:22as it was the first ecumenical gathering of bishops, promoting unity among the world's Christian churches.

00:30Among the outcomes was the Nicene Creed, a statement of faith that is still recited by Christians today.

00:36Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians, met for the first time with Pope Leo XIV earlier this week.

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