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 the 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 sitteth on the right
hand of the Father; and He shall come again, with glory, to judge the
living and the dead; whose kingdom shall have no end.
And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Giver
of life; who proceedeth from the Father and the Son; who with the Father
and the Son together is worshipped and glorified; who spake by the prophets.
And I believe one holy catholic 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.
The Nicene Creed, also called the Nicaeno-Constantinopolitan
Creed, is a statement of the orthodox faith of the early Christian Church,
in opposition to certain heresies, especially Arianism. These heresies
disturbed the Church during the fourth century, and concerned the doctrine
of the Trinity and of the person of Christ. Both the Greek, or Eastern,
and the Latin, or Western, Church held this Creed in honor, though with
one important difference. The Western Church insisted on the inclusion
of the phrase and the Son (known as the Filioque) in the article on
the procession of the Holy Spirit, which phrase to this day is repudiated
by the Eastern Church.