Prvý nicejský koncil a kánonické právo
The First Council of Nicaea and Canon Law

Summary/Abstract: The First Council of Nicaea, whose 1700th anniversary we commemorate this year, can be described as one of the most significant events of Church antiquity. It took place practically immediately after the end of criminal sanctions against Christians by the Roman state, and its convocation by Emperor Constantine I the Great was primarily driven by reasons of a religious nature that undermined the unity of the Church. The fathers of this first ecumenical council therefore adopted several important conclusions in the field of Christian dogmatics and, in the interest of preventing further negative phenomena, also proceeded to compile twenty disciplinary canons, which belonged to the first sources of universal canon law in general. The main goal of the article is to recall the historical background of the proceedings of this council, as well as to point out its importance not only for historical but also for valid canon law.

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