Third Council of Constantinople

Third Council of Constantinople
Third Council of Constantinople
	Miniature 45 from the Constantine Manasses Chronicle, 14 century: Sixth Ecumenical Council
Date	680–681
Accepted by	Catholic Church; Eastern Orthodox Church; Anglican Communion; Old Catholic Church; Some Protestant churches;
Previous council	Second Council of Constantinople
Next council	Second Council of Nicaea (Catholic numbering); Quinisext Council (Orthodox numbering);
Convoked by	Emperor Constantine IV
President	Patriarch George I of Constantinople
Attendance	Perhaps 300; signatories to the documents ranged from 43 (first session) to 174 (last session)
Topics	Monothelitism, the human and divine wills of Jesus
Documents and statements	Condemnation of Monothelitism
	Chronological list of ecumenical councils

The Third Council of Constantinople, counted as the Sixth Ecumenical Council^[1] by the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic Churches, and by certain other Western Churches, met in 680–681 and condemned monoenergism and monothelitism as heretical and defined Jesus Christ as having two energies and two wills (divine and human).^[2]

^ Continuity and Change in Creed and Confessions, Credo: Historical and Theological Guide to Creeds and Confessions of Faith, ed. Jaroslav Pelikan (Yale University Press, 2013), 15.
^ George Ostrogorsky, History of the Byzantine State (Rutgers University Press, 1995), 127.