The Definition of Faith

Third Council of Constantinople

The Sixth Ecumenical Council sat at Constantinople in A.D. 680–681 to answer the teaching of the Monothelites, who confessed in Christ only a single will. Following the earlier councils, the fathers defined that in the one Christ there are two natural wills and two natural operations, divine and human, the human will subject to the divine yet not destroyed — completing the Church’s confession of him as true God and true man.

1. Chapter 1
2. Chapter 2
3. Chapter 3
4. Chapter 4
5. Chapter 5
6. Chapter 6
7. Chapter 7
8. Chapter 8
9. Chapter 9
10. Chapter 10

The holy, great, and Ecumenical Synod which has been assembled by the grace of God, and the religious decree of the most religious and faithful and mighty Sovereign Constantine, in this God-protected and royal city of Constantinople, New Rome, in the Hall of the imperial Palace, called Trullus, has decreed as follows.