The Nicene Creed is the statement of faith that opens “We believe in one God, the Father Almighty”. Two councils of bishops wrote it. The first met at Nicaea in 325, and the second, at Constantinople in 381, lengthened the first council’s creed into the text we know. Catholics, Orthodox and Protestants hold it in common. Catholics say it at Mass on Sundays, and the Orthodox chant it in the Divine Liturgy. Its first word, as the bishops wrote it…

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