Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod Resource Page

On this day, the seventh Sunday of Pascha, we celebrate the First Ecumenical Synod, of the three hundred and eighteen God-bearing Fathers, which took place in Nicaea.

Verses

O ye light-bearing stars of the spiritual firmament,

Enlighten my mind with your rays.

Verses Against Arius

Calling the Son a stranger to the Father’s essence,

Arius proved to be a stranger to God’s glory.

Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod

 

Synaxarion for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers 

 

Sunday of the 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod: Epistle and Gospel Reading 

 

Sunday of the 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod in 325 

 

Sunday of the Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod (S.V. Bulgakov) 

 

Homily One for the Seventh Sunday of Pascha (St. John Chrysostom)

 

Homily Two for the Seventh Sunday of Pascha (St. John Chrysostom)

Gospel Commentary for the Seventh Sunday of Pascha - John 17:1 (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

 

Gospel Commentary for the Seventh Sunday of Pascha - John 17:2 (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

 

Gospel Commentary for the Seventh Sunday of Pascha - John 17:3 (St. Cyril of Alexandria)

"That They May Be One, Even As We Are" (St. Cyril of Alexandria)  

 

Gospel Commentary for the Seventh Sunday of Pascha (St. Theophylact of Ochrid)

 

On the Sunday of the 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod (St. Neophytos the Recluse)

 

Reflection for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod (St. Theophan the Recluse) 

 

Homily One for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers (St. John of Kronstadt)

 

Homily Two for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers (St. John of Kronstadt)

Homily on the Sunday of the Holy Fathers (Righteous Alexei Mechev)

 

Homily on the Sunday of the 318 Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod (St. Luke of Simferopol)

 

Homily on the Gospel Reading for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod (St. Luke of Simferopol)

The Message of the Gospel for the Seventh Sunday of Pascha (St. Nikolai Velimirovich)

 

Homily on the Seventh Sunday After Pascha: Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod (Archimandrite Kirill Pavlov)

 

Homily for the Sunday of the Holy Fathers - The Prayer of Christ for Unity (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

Patriarchal and Synodal Encyclical Issued on the Occasion of the 1700th Anniversary of the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea

  

Saint Agatharchos, Bishop of Lefkada, 

and the Holy Five God-bearing Fathers 

 

Saint Agatharchos, Bishop of Lefkada, and the Holy Five God-bearing Fathers 

 

 

First Ecumenical Synod 

 

History of the Church of the Holy Fathers in Nicaea 

 

The First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea (Fr. George Florovsky)

 

The First Ecumenical Synod and Its Significance (Metropolitan Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

Homilies on the Ecumenical Synods - The First Ecumenical Synod (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos)

 

2025 Pastoral Encyclical for the New Year (Metr. Hierotheos of Nafpaktos) 

Icons of the Nicene Creed 

 

Myths of the First Ecumenical Synod (Council of Nicaea - 325 AD) 

 

The Poisonous Songs of Arius 

 

Concerning the Date of Pascha and the First Ecumenical Council 

 

How a Simple Priest Saved “Consubstantiality” 

 

The Vision of Saint Peter of Alexandria 

 

The Cave Chapel of the 318 Holy Fathers in Archimandrita, Cyprus   

 

Saint Constantine the Great Resource Page

Holy Fathers of the First Ecumenical Synod 

 

Saint Hosios, Bishop of Corduba (+ 359)

 

Saint Alexander, Patriarch of Alexandria (+ 326)  

 

Saint Athanasius the Great Resource Page 

 

Saint Metrophanes, First Archbishop of Constantinople 

 

Saints Alexander, John and Paul the New, Patriarchs of Constantinople

 

Synaxarion of our Holy Father Eustathios, Archbishop of Antioch 

 

Saint Spyridon Resource Page 

 

Saint Alexander, Bishop of Methymni 

 

Holy Hieromartyr Hypatios the Wonderworker and Bishop of Gangra 

 

Synaxarion of Saint Paul, Archbishop of Neocaesarea 

 

Saint Achillios of Larissa, the Ecumenical Father 

 

Holy Hieromartyr Potamon, Bishop of Heraclea (+ 341) 

 

Saint John, Bishop of Irenopolis 

 

Saint Sisinius the Confessor, Bishop of Cyzicus 

 

Saint Kyntion, Bishop of Seleucia

 

Saint Agatharchos, Bishop of Lefkada, and the Holy Five God-bearing Fathers

The Rise of the Recent Veneration in Cyprus of Saint Marios the Bishop of Sebaste

 

Was Saint Nicholas at the First Ecumenical Synod?