This Week in Christian History: Charles Spurgeon, Supreme Court School Prayer, Council of Ephesus

By Michael Gryboski, Mainline Church Editor Twitter

Third Ecumenical Council Opens - June 22, 431

A mural depicting the Third Ecumenical Council, which took place in Ephesus in the year AD 431 and attended by about 200 bishops.
A mural depicting the Third Ecumenical Council, which took place in Ephesus in the year AD 431 and attended by about 200 bishops. | (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Philippe Alès)

This week marks the anniversary of the beginning of the Third Ecumenical Council, or Council of Ephesus, which was held in the city of Ephesus for around two months.

At issue was a heresy by Patriarch Nestorius of Constantinople, which claimed that Jesus Christ was two distinct persons, a divine person and a human person, rather than one person who was both human and divine.

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Attended by approximately 200 bishops, the Council reaffirmed the belief that Jesus was one person both human and divine and also issued the "Twelve Anathemas against Nestorius."

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