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The Sunday of the Holy Fathers, which our Church celebrates during the time of Pentecost, is dedicated to the memory of the Holy and God-bearing Fathers of the 1st Ecumenical Synod, in Nicaea, at which Saint Athanasios the Great and Saint Spyridon the Wonder-Worker were present and gave their testimony on behalf of the faith. In the Holy Spirit, the Synod expressed the received faith of the Church and formulated its dogmatic teaching concerning the second person of the Holy Trinity, the Son and Word of God, Jesus Christ, who is both God and human. The significance of the 1st Ecumenical Synod lies in the fact that it defended the faith against the heretical teaching of Arius and his supporters, who ...