Council of Ariminum
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. Jerome wrote that the world groaned to find itself Arian.
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.
People
- Constantius II convened
Documents
What it decided
- The Son is like the Father The Son is like the Father according to the scriptures, and the word substance is not to be used of either.
In the disputes
- The Arian crisis Sixty years of argument about whether the Son is God in the same sense the Father is.