The Nicene Creed

Roman Emperor Constantine requested a meeting of Christian theologians to draft a unified response to those who opposed the Christian teachings about the divinity of Jesus and the Triune God. The result of that request was the Nicene (nigh SEEN) Creed drafted by the Council of Nicea in 325 AD. In 381 AD the Council of Constantinople refined and expanded the Nicene Creed. This Niceno-Constanopolitan Creed was reaffirmed by the Council of Ephesus (431 AD) and the Council of Chalcedon (451 AD). The Nicene Creed, as it is now known, is commonly confessed in services where the Sacrament of Holy Communion is celebrated and at Festival services.

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 Spirit 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 sits at the right hand of the Father. And He will come again with glory to judge both the living and the dead, whose kingdom will have no end.

And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and giver of life, who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who with the Father and the Son together is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets. And I believe in one holy Christian and apostolic 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.

Us men means all people.

Christian: the ancient text reads “catholic,” meaning the whole
Church as it confesses the wholeness of Christian doctrine.