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Metropolitan of Petra: The Fourth Ecumenical Council clarified the truth from the fallacytranslated

July 23, 2026 · 1 min read

On Sunday July 19, 2026, in which the memory of the Holy 630 God-bearing Fathers who gathered in Chalcedon in the year 451 and established the Fourth Ecumenical Synod was commemorated, the Most Reverend Metropolitan of Petra and Herronissos, Mr. Gerasimos officiated in the Catholic Church of the Holy Patriarchal and Cross Monastery of Keras Kardiotissis Plain. Speaking about this historic position of the Church, he underlined: "Unfortunately, the Christological issue did not end with either the First or the Second Ecumenical Council, which drew up the Creed and referred to the One Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His Divine Essence was not a creation, as Arius taught. So is the Holy Spirit, co-equal Person of the Holy Trinity and consubstantial with the Father and the Son. One God, one essence with three persons. So while they said that God is the Son of God, they could not understand how the union of the divine and the human nature took place. Many sects were created: Nestorianism, Docetism, Monophysitism, etc. So the Fourth Ecumenical Council had to be convened to dogmatize, clarifying the truth from the fallacy that the union of divine and human essence was unmistakably,...

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