A list of 199 bishops attending the Council of Nicaea records that 18 of them came from the “eparchy of Palestine.” This was the second largest delegation, after that of Coele-Syria.
Among the Holy Land bishops, one claimed authorship of the Creed adopted at the council, while another returned with the mandate to build the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
Marie-Armelle Beaulieu is a reporter who has worked for the past 20 years with the Franciscans of the Custody, running the French edition of The Holy Land Review: Terre Sainte Magazine.
The range of stories she pursues, like the brushstrokes of a pointillist painter, sketches a history of the Holy Land – past and present.