a confession of faith of Christians traditionally attributed to the first Nicene Council and accepted, with some differences in wording, by both the Eastern Church and the Western Church
See Nicene Creed in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(nīˈsēnˌ, nī-sēnˈ)
noun Christianity
A formal statement of doctrine of the Christian faith adopted at the Council of Nicaea in A.D. 325 to defend orthodoxy from Arianism and expanded in later councils.