Council
of Chalcedon
The
Council of Chalcedon took place from
October
8 -
November 1,
451 A.D at
Chalcedon,
a city of
Bithynia in
Asia Minor. It is the
fourth of the first seven
Ecumenical
Councils in
Christianity,
and is therefore recognized as infallible in its dogmatic definitions by the Roman
Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches. It set forth the
Chalcedonian
Creed, which describes the full humanity and full divinity of
Jesus
Christ, the second person of the
Holy
Trinity. Ecumenical councils after the seventh are recognized as infallible
only by Roman Catholics.