Search results for "Councils" - New World Encyclopedia
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- oversee different areas. At village level, councils reported to the governor. Weights and measures were standardized. Tasks such as street cleaning, ...15 KB (2,168 words) - 11:36, 6 September 2022
- Authority began creating neighborhood councils, elected by neighborhood ... Similarly, in Baghdad Province, local councils were elected from 20 ...29 KB (4,200 words) - 05:40, 26 August 2023
- ===The Ecumenical Councils=== major role in the first three Ecumenical councils. Thus, the Council of Nicaea ...27 KB (4,022 words) - 03:00, 8 January 2024
- do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other—my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot ...7 KB (1,119 words) - 14:32, 29 January 2024
- attendance and votes at ecclesiastical councils. Thus at the first Council ... in defiance of the prohibition of early councils and the protests of St. ...15 KB (2,485 words) - 04:42, 14 June 2023
- that only the first three ecumenical councils were to be accepted, rejecting ... defined at the first three ecumenical councils at Nicaea, Constantinople ...23 KB (3,529 words) - 20:01, 9 November 2022
- Local councils in Asia Minor reportedly moved against the Montanists as early as 177 C.E. When one such synod excommunicated Priscilla, she reportedly ...17 KB (2,439 words) - 21:12, 9 November 2022
- of Cheltenham, Pope Damasus I, the Councils of Hippo (393) and Carthage (397), Pope Innocent I, the second Council of Carthage (419), and Augustine ...16 KB (2,553 words) - 09:06, 27 September 2023
- Strait Islands in 1879. Elected island councils and law courts were set ... area. There are 17 Torres Strait Island Councils. These areas have been relinquished ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- of the tribes, since the full tribal councils had not been consulted, ... the treaty, claiming that the full tribal councils had not been consulted, ...18 KB (2,766 words) - 19:44, 14 August 2021
- The Ecthesis reaffirmed the doctrines of five Ecumenical Councils ... and the adjoining islands also held councils and likewise wrote afterward ...20 KB (3,013 words) - 21:11, 9 November 2022
- were ratified at the intervening Ecumenical Councils. ====Second and third centuries: Adoptionism in Pre-Nicene christology==== The first definitively ...19 KB (2,965 words) - 13:08, 10 March 2023
- (c.160-c.225) and established through the Councils of Nicea (325) and Constantinople ... coined considerably influenced the later Councils of Nicea (325) and of Constantinople ...27 KB (4,354 words) - 11:19, 2 February 2024
- Local government in Botswana is administered by nine district councils and five town councils. District commissioners have executive authority ...17 KB (2,344 words) - 09:18, 4 December 2023
- or to change the decisions of Ecumenical Councils. The filioque controversy ... their geographical areas. The Ecumenical Councils of Constantinople and Chalcedon ...19 KB (2,956 words) - 19:43, 24 May 2024
- The Epistle of Jude is a book in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. Considered one of the "general epistles" because it is addressed ...9 KB (1,490 words) - 19:10, 13 February 2024
- 8, workers' and soldiers' councils had seized most of western ... members were similarly killed, and the councils were suppressed. Luxemburg ...25 KB (3,897 words) - 19:13, 16 December 2022
- Soon, sovereigns with their councils and retinues held court ... powers for tribes and for tribal councils. Though the Act did not ...21 KB (3,221 words) - 08:44, 10 January 2024
- the Studite, along with the canons of the Councils, constitute the chief part ... as time went on by the decisions of councils, by the ordinances of the ...20 KB (3,100 words) - 03:26, 1 January 2022
- of Lyons, and Prudentius, and was condemned by two councils: that of Valence in 855, and that of Langres in 859. The former council described his arguments ...10 KB (1,486 words) - 15:09, 1 August 2022
