Council of Ephesus

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the third ecumenical council in 431 which declared Mary as mother of God and condemned Pelagius

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A Second Council of Ephesus was held in 449, but its controversial acts were never approved by the Catholics. Source: Internet

Finally, Emperor Theodosius II convoked the Council of Ephesus (in 431) to solve the dispute. Source: Internet

He agreed to anathematize Nestorius as a heretic in 451, during the Council of Chalcedon, as the price to be paid for being restored to his see (after deposition at the Council of Ephesus of 449). Source: Internet

Conciliation In 1994, the Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East marked the resolution of a dispute between those two churches that had existed since the Council of Ephesus. Source: Internet

It came to be called the Robber Council of Ephesus or Robber Synod of Latrocinium by its opponents. Source: Internet

Nestorius and his doctrine were condemned at the First Council of Ephesus in 431, leading to the Nestorian Schism in which churches supporting Nestorius split from the rest of Christianity. Source: Internet

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