Back Derde Konsilie van Konstantinopel AF مجمع القسطنطينية الثالث Arabic مجمع القسطنطينيه الثالث ARZ Conceyu de Constantinopla III AST Шести вселенски събор Bulgarian কনস্টান্টিনোপলের তৃতীয় পরিষদ Bengali/Bangla Concili de Constantinoble III Catalan Třetí konstantinopolský koncil Czech 6. økumeniske koncil Danish Drittes Konzil von Konstantinopel German
| Third Council of Constantinople | |
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 Miniature 45 from the Constantine Manasses Chronicle, 14 century: Sixth Ecumenical Council | |
| Date | 680–681 |
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Previous council | Second Council of Constantinople |
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| Convoked by | Emperor Constantine IV |
| President | Patriarch George I of Constantinople |
| Attendance | Perhaps 300; signatories to the documents ranged from 43 (first session) to 174 (last session) |
| Topics | Monothelitism, the human and divine wills of Jesus |
Documents and statements | Condemnation of Monothelitism |
| Chronological list of ecumenical councils | |
The Third Council of Constantinople, counted as the Sixth Ecumenical Council[1] by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches, and by certain other Western Churches, met in 680–681 and condemned monoenergism and monothelitism as heretical and defined Jesus Christ as having two energies and two wills (divine and human).[2]
- ^ Continuity and Change in Creed and Confessions, Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (Yale University Press, 2013), 15.
- ^ George Ostrogorsky, History of the Byzantine State (Rutgers University Press, 1995), 127.