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The Filioque clause is a part of the Nicene Creed that not all Christians agree about. Filioque is Latin. In the context (of the Nicene Creed) it means and from the Son. The main parties involved are the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. The Eastern Orthodox Church rejects this change, the Catholic Church, as well as most Protestant and the Anglican Church accept it.

The Latin text is given below, the change is highlighted. This was added in the Catholic version.

(Credo)… Et in Spiritum Sanctum, Dominum et vivificantem,
qui ex Patre Filioque procedit …

This is usually translated into English as:

(I believe) .. and in the Holy Ghost
which comes from the Father and from the Son...

Many Eastern Catholic Churches have the same version as the Eastern Orthodox Churches. They do however believe what the added words say.

Images for kids

  • Filioque

    The doctrine of the Filioque, from the Boulbon Altarpiece: The Holy Ghost coming from the Father and the Son, detail of the Boulbon Altarpiece, 15th century, Louvre, Paris. Provence, c. 1450. From the high altar of the Chapelle Saint-Marcellin, Boulbon, France.

  • Council of Constantinople 381 BnF MS Gr510 fol355

    First Council of Constantinople with halo-adorned Emperor Theodosius I (miniature in Homilies of Gregory Nazianzus (879–882), Bibliothèque nationale de France)

  • Maximus Confessor

    Maximus the Confessor

  • Palaio

    John VIII Palaiologos by Benozzo Gozzoli

See also

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