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Date 325
Location İznik • Turkey
Participants history of early Christianity

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Eusebius of Nicomedia
bishop
Arius
Arius
Christian priest
Constantine I
Constantine I
Roman emperor
Saint Eustathius of Antioch
bishop of Antioch