Constantinople


Constantinople - noun

  • 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
  • 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 sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
  • the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic
  • the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed

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    Scrabble score for Constantinople

    c is 3 o is 1 n is 1 s is 1 t is 1 a is 1 n is 1 t is 1 i is 1 n is 1 o is 1 p is 3 l is 1 e is 1
    Scrabble score = 18

    Please note that scrabble only allows seven tiles to be placed at once.

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