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Third Council of Toledo

Date
589
Place
Toledo, Visigothic Spain

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What it decided

Sealed the conversion of King Reccared and the Visigothic people from Arianism to the Nicene faith. Presided over by Leander of Seville, with about 72 bishops, it issued 23 canons. The creed it professed said the Holy Spirit proceeds “from the Father and the Son” (Filioque), one of the earliest conciliar uses of the formula, which later became one of the causes of the East–West separation.

Convoked by
King Reccared I
Canons
23

Who recognises it

None (council of the Visigothic kingdom)