Answer:The Council of Nicea took place in AD 325 by order of the Roman Emperor Caesar Flavius Constantine. Nicea was located in Asia Minor, east of Constantinople. At the Council of Nicea, Emperor Constantine presided over a group of church bishops and other leaders with the purpose of defining the nature of God for all of Christianity and eliminating confusion, controversy, and contention within the church. The Council of Nicea overwhelmingly affirmed the deity and eternality of Jesus Christ and defined the relationship between the Father and the Son as “of one substance.” It also affirmed the Trinity—the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit were listed as three co-equal and co-eternal Persons. " It was very clear trinity was not come from Lord Jesus . Its the Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware.
Here is a bit of the bishop’s statement:
I am today announcing that the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington Inc. has filed for Chapter 11 reorganization under the U.S. Bankruptcy Code. This is a painful decision, one that I had hoped and prayed I would never have to make. However, after careful consideration and after consultation with my close advisors and counselors, I believe we have no other choice, and that filing for Chapter 11 offers the best opportunity, given finite resources, to provide the fairest possible treatment of all victims of sexual abuse by priests of our Diocese. Our hope is that Chapter 11 proceedings will enable us to fairly compensate all victims through a single process established by the Bankruptcy Court. ‘The Church of England could die out within a generation’.
According to a report in The Daily Telegraph on 27 June 2009, the Rt Rev Paul Richardson, assistant Church of England Bishop of Newcastle, has admitted that Britain is no longer a Christian nation. As one of the Church of England’s longest-serving bishops, his comments have attracted attention. They come at a time when the General Synod of the Church of England is having to consider cutting the number of bishops and senior clergy because of fears over the Church’s finances.Bishop Richardson explained: ‘Many bishops prefer to turn their heads, to carry on as if nothing has changed, rather than face the reality that Britain is no longer a Christian nation’. He said that the Church had lost more than one in ten of even its ‘regular’ worshipers between 1996 and 2006. Then there was a fall from more than one million to 880,000, about 1.7% of the population of England. ‘At this rate it is hard to see the Church surviving for more than 30 years, though few of its leaders are prepared to face that possibility’, said Bishop Richardson. Bishop Richardson said that the percentage of babies being baptised had fallen from 60.9% at the turn of the twentieth century to 12.8% in 2006/7 and the number of church weddings had also dropped.
Pamela Foohey, of the University of Illinois College of Law, looked at more than 450 congregations filing for bankruptcy over a six-year period. Her study shows that the Protestant churches going bankrupt almost always cited external circumstances, out of the control of the religious leadership. The effect the financial crisis had on giving was referenced a lot in court documents. Natural disasters, such as Hurricane Sandy, were said to precipitate the financial problems.
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