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What does Chalcedon mean?

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  1. an ancient maritime town of Bithynia, in Asia Minor, almost directly opposite Byzantium
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After the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, the Church of Alexandria was split between the Miaphysites and the Melkites.
The army was collected, the bridge was ready, when Darius came to Chalcedon.
Thus while John is an adherent of Chalcedon and a dyothelite, the drift of his teaching is in the Monophysite direction.
It also served as a repository of several ecumenical councils such as the Council of Nicea, Council of Ephesus, and the Council of Chalcedon.
No doubt these, too, are offending the champions of the Council of Chalcedon.
They never adopted the theory of the Nature of God, which was formulated later than the break that followed the Council of Chalcedon.

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