The Nicene Creed

A creed is a profession of faith. In reciting the words ‘I believe’ or ‘We believe’, Catholics give their assent to the divine truths, revealed by God, in Sacred Scripture and the living Tradition of the Church. While creeds do not contain everything about the faith, credal formulas do provide us with something of a distilled summary.

The Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed (or Nicene Creed) emerged from the ecumenical councils of Nicaea (AD325) and Constantinople (AD381).