council · 359 · Rimini
At Ariminum in 359 four hundred western bishops, isolated and pressured through a long summer by Constantius' officials, finally subscribed a creed that dropped Nicaea's homoousios for a vaguer 'like the Father'. The lapse was repudiated within a decade, but it taught the church what imperial pressure could extract.
The Council of Ariminum, also known as the Council of Rimini, was an early Christian church synod in Ariminum, modern-day Rimini, in 359. Called by Roman Emperor Constantius II to resolve the Arian controversy, the Council of Ariminum for western bishops paralleled the Council of Seleucia for eastern bishops.
Constantius II's push for a compromise creed omitting the ousia language.
Worn down, the western bishops signed the homoean formula — 'the Son is like the Father'; Jerome: the world groaned to find itself Arian.