constantinople   (TTS Sound)

The noun constantinople has 5 senses

• Istanbul, Stambul, Stamboul, Constantinople -- (the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church)


• Constantinople, Fourth Council of Constantinople -- (the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches)


• Constantinople, Third Council of Constantinople -- (the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human)


• Constantinople, Second Council of Constantinople -- (the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic)


• Constantinople, First Council of Constantinople -- (the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed)