Council of Chalcedon

The Council of Chalcedon, the fourth ecumenical council was held in 451 in the small town of Asia Minor near Constantinople. It establishes, using the definition given by Pope Leo I, the dogma of the union of the two natures of Christ, both divine and human, inconfusibly and indivisibly in the person of Christ. This council put an end to monophysitism, which favoured the divine nature of Christ. Considered a heresy by the church of Constantinople, monophysitism is a concept that is far more political than spiritual. For Armenians, the human and the divine form one subject. Only divinity deserves to be referred to as a “nature”.