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  1. An ecumenical council of the early Christian
  2. church, convoked 451 by the Roman emperor
  3. Marcian, and held at Chalcedon (now Kadikoy,
  4. Turkey). The council, attended by over 500
  5. bishops, resulted in the Definition of
  6. Chalcedon, an agreed doctrine for both the
  7. eastern and western churches. The council was
  8. assembled to repudiate the ideas of Eutyches
  9. (378-454) on Jesus' divine nature subsuming
  10. the human; it also rejected the Monophysite
  11. doctrine that Jesus had only one nature, and
  12. repudiated Nestorianism. It reached a
  13. compromise definition of Jesus' nature which
  14. it was hoped would satisfy all factions:
  15. Jesus was one person in two natures, united
  16. `unconfusedly, unchangeably, indivisibly,
  17. inseparably'.
  18.