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AD 431 · Ephesus, Asia Minor

Council of Ephesus

The faithful of Ephesus in a joyful night-time torchlight procession escorting Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the bishops after the Virgin Mary was proclaimed Theotokos at the Council of Ephesus, AD 431, beneath a radiant medallion of the Theotokos and the Christ Child.
The faithful of Ephesus in a joyful night-time torchlight procession escorting Saint Cyril of Alexandria and the bishops after the Virgin Mary was proclaimed Theotokos at the Council of Ephesus, AD 431, beneath a radiant medallion of the Theotokos and the Christ Child.
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Against Nestorius, the council confessed that Mary is truly Theotokos (“God-bearer”), for the one born of her is God the Word made flesh (Ephesus, 431).

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