ABSTRACT
The Constantinopolitan Creed, popularly known as the Nicene Creed, has since the Council of Chalcedon been associated with the Council of Constantinople. The exact records of the Council do not contain the creed, and it was not popularly used before Chalcedon. For these and other reasons many scholars have concluded that the creed actually had no relation to the Council. Recent studies, including those of Schwartz and Kelly, conclude that the creed is properly called the Creed of the 150 Fathers of Constantinople, though the details of this Council's work on the creed remain obscure. The creed is Nicene in that it affirms the theology of Nicaea. The creed is suited to liturgy and may have largely developed in the liturgy of the Church. In any case, it was very early employed as a baptismal creed and was used in the liturgy of the Eucharist from the sixth century.
