a Eurasian republic in Asia Minor and the Balkans; on the collapse of the Ottoman Empire in 1918, the Young Turks, led by Kemal Ataturk, established a republic in 1923 | the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed |
| the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic |
| the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human |
| the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches |
| the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church |