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The Clue
Site of two ecumenical councils (6 letter answer)
The Answer
NICAEA
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The answer NICAEA is so rare that it appears less than once every 2500 puzzles.
Definition
NICAEA as a noun:
1. an ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325
2. (Nicaea, Second Council of Nicaea) = the seventh ecumenical council in 787 which refuted iconoclasm and regulated the veneration of holy images
3. (Nicaea, First Council of Nicaea) = the first ecumenical council in 325 which produced the wording of the Nicene Creed and condemned the heresy of Arianism