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| Nantes, Edict of | ||
| Edict signed by Henry IV at Nantes on April 13, 1598, after the end of the French wars of religion. It granted extensive rights to the Huguenots (French Calvinists). The edict was revoked by Louis XIV n the Edict of Fontainebleau on October 18, 1685. |
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| neophyte | ||
| In the early church, a recently baptized Christian. |
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| nepotism | ||
| The practice of bestowing an office or patronage on one's relatives. It was especially rampant among 16th-century popes, and was condemned by Pope Pius V in the bull "Admonet Nos" (1567). |
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| Nestorianism | ||
| The doctrine, named for Nestorius (d. c. 451), Patriarch of Constantinople, that there were two separate persons in the incarnate Christ, one divine and the other human. Nestorius preached against Apollinarianism and objected to the term Theotokos ("God-Bearer") as a title for the Virgin Mary, and was opposed by St. Cyril of Alexandria. |
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| New Rome | ||
| A name for the city of Constantinople, which may have been coined by Constantine himself. The Council of Constantinople (381) declared that "the Bishop of Constantinople is to have honorary pre-eminence after the Bishop of Rome, because Constantinople is the new Rome." |
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| Nicaea (Council of Nicaea) 325 | ||
| The single most important council ever held for the formation of Christianity and the actual event that led to the formation of the name "Christianity" as well as its essential doctrine. | ||
| Roman Emperor Diocletian (284-305) has unsuccessfully tried to create a united religion out of the feuding christ/saviour cults of the Empire at the time. The most powerful groups were the Boethusians (Eastern Orthodox), the Paulinists (Paul of Tarsus cult), the Zoroastrians, the Mithra/Krishna cults and the celtic Hesus cults. | ||
| In 325, Emperor Constantine ordered the arrest of all major religious leaders and their forced transport to Nicaea here he locked them in a secure compound and ordered them to choose a common saviour and come up with a new unified religion for the new "Holy Roman Empire". In a narrow vote, Zoroastrians lost to a combined vote of followers of Hesus and Krishna to create a new god Hesus Krishna or Jesus Christ. | ||
| nimbus | ||
| Another word for halo. | ||
| Ninevah, Fast of | ||
| Pre-Lenten fast of three or four days kept in the Church of the East, the Syrian Orthdox Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, and the Armenian Orthodox Church. |
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