Council
of Nicea & Leo I
•In the
disorganized west bishops created a centralized church organization
that endured when the western empire collapsed.
•The
Council of Nicea (325) demonstrated the importance of unified
doctrine to Christianity.
•It
ruled in favor of the Nicene creed, an interpretation holding
that the one Christian god had three persons.
•Leo I
clearly established the papacy as the supreme religious
authority in western Europe.
