authentic · Handed down as the creed that the Virgin Mary and John the Evangelist revealed to Gregory in a vision (Gregory of Nyssa quotes it in his Life of Gregory). Its authenticity is generally accepted, though some place it later; it was used in the Trinitarian disputes of the fourth century.
Standing
Honoured by the Catholic and Orthodox traditions. Honoured as a saint or in a church calendar by: Catholic, Orthodox.
Older English translation
Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 6 (1886) (public domain, at CCEL; for comparison: our translation is made from the original first and checked against it afterwards) · ANF 6 prints it as "A Declaration of Faith".
Date
3rd century (approximate)
Written at
Neocaesarea, Pontus (probable)
Language
Greek
Genre
other
Reference system
one unit (the whole creed, about 160 words)
SBL abbreviation
Expos. fid.Not yet checked
Clavis
CPG number not yet checked
Text from
J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus, Series Graeca 10 (Paris: Migne, 1857), cols. 983–988 (Printed edition in the public domain; OCR transcription of public-domain page images)