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Nicene Creed
381
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- By
- First Council of Constantinople
- Dates
- written 381; adopted by the First Council of Constantinople, 381; adopted by the Council of Chalcedon, 451
- Tradition
- ecumenical
- Also called
- Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed; Nicene-Constantinopolitan Creed; Constantinopolitan Creed; Creed of the 150 Fathers
- Follows
- The Book of Common Prayer, and Administration of the Sacraments, and other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church of England, the King’s printers’ folio, 1662 (London); Wing B3622 · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org
- Transcribed
- From the scanChecked against EEBO-TCP A28758: all, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-28
- License
- Public domain
- Notes
The Creed of the Communion service of the Book of Common Prayer of 1662, as its first printing has it (sig. V3v), with the Western “and the Son” (filioque) and without “holy” before “Catholick”. The printing is black letter; its long s is printed s, and its u and v as we write them. The 1693 printing (Wing B3687, EEBO-TCP A28758) has the same words, but “Catholic”. In the United Kingdom the Prayer Book’s text is the Crown’s, under its letters patent; elsewhere it is in the public domain.
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I Believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, And of all things visible and invisible:
And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only begotten Son of God, Begotten of his Father before all worlds, God of God, Light of Light, Very God of very God, Begotten, not made, Being of one substance with the Father, By whom all things were made: Who for us men, and for our salvation came down from heaven, And was incarnate by the holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary, And was made man, And was crucified also for us under Pontius Pilate. He suffered and was buried, And the third day he rose again according to the Scriptures, And ascended into heaven, And sitteth on the right hand of the Father. And he shall come again with glory to judge both the quick and the dead: Whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the holy Ghost, The Lord and giver of life, Who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, Who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified, Who spake by the prophets. And I believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church. I acknowledge one Baptism for the remission of sins, And I look for the Resurrection of the dead, And the life of the world to come. Amen.
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