Rimini
City on the Adriatic coast of Italy, the Roman Ariminum. More than four hundred western bishops met here in 359 by order of the emperor Constantius II. Sulpicius Severus says that they were kept in the city until they signed the creed he required.
Rimini, the Roman Ariminum, lies on the Adriatic coast of Italy. In 359 the western half of the council summoned by Constantius II met here, more than four hundred bishops by the count of Athanasius (Athanasius, On the Councils 8). Sulpicius Severus says that the majority held the church while about eighty of their opponents used a building that stood empty, and that the bishops were still shut up in the city in the seventh month, in winter, when the last of them signed (Sulpicius Severus, Chronicle 2.41, 2.43–44). See the Councils of Rimini and Seleucia.
What happened here
- AD 359 to AD 360, firm dateThe Councils of Rimini and Seleucia
The emperor Constantius II summons the western bishops to Rimini and the eastern to Seleucia. Under imperial pressure the delegates of both accept a creed that calls the Son like the Father and forbids the Nicene language of substance.