This confession of faith was agreed upon by all the churches at the first ecumenical council held in 325 AD in the city of Nicea, near Constantinople. The Nicene Creed is solemnly chanted by all the people as an official declaration of the most important articles of the Churches doctrine. It is essential that all those who have assembled for the Divine Liturgy be of one theological mind.

In what we believe?

We believe in one God, the Father almighty, maker of heaven and earth, of things visible and invisible.

And in one Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of God, begotten of God the Father, only-begotten, that is of the substance of the Father.

God from God, light from light, true God from true God, begotten and not made; of the same nature of the Father, by whom all things came into being in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible;

Who for us men and for our salvation came down from the heaven, took body, became man, was born perfectly of the holy virgin Mary by the Holy Spirit.

By whom he took body, soul and mind and everything that is in man, truly and not in semblance.

He suffered and was crucified and was buried and rose again on the third day and ascended into heaven with the same body and sat at the right hand of the Father.

He is to come with the same body and with the glory of the Father to judge the living and the dead; of His kingdom there is no end.

We believe also in the Holy Spirit, the uncreate and the perfect, who spoke through the Law and through the Prophets and through the Gospels;

Who came down upon Jordan, preached and through the apostles and dwelled in the saints.

We believe also in only one catholic and apostolic holy Church;

In one baptism with repentance for the remission and forgiveness of sins;
In the resurrection of the dead, in the everlasting judgment of souls and bodies, in the kingdom of heaven and in the life eternal.