Talk:Fourth Council of Constantinople

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[edit] Split this article?

Considering that there are two separate councils which are considered the Fourth Council of Constantinople / Eighth Ecumenical Council, should this article be split and turned into a disambiguation article? The table gets rather cumbersome to try to represent both councils, and it's hard for the article (esp. with the table as it is) not to be stilted to the RC POV as it is now. —Preost ^{talk contribs} 23:09, 25 January 2006 (UTC)

It needs to be either split into two articles -- probably entitled Fourth Council of Constantinople (Catholic) and Fourth Council of Constantinople (Orthodox) -- or it needs to be a single long article with two large sections. If we choose the latter method, then each of the sections needs to have its own table. Right now the table lists the dates of the orthodox Constantinople IV (879-880), while the Catholic table would list the dates of the other one (869-870). — Lawrence King ^(talk) 07:00, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

My comments above were in reference to this version of the page. This was the result of POV mass-deletion of half the page, which I have reverted. — Lawrence King ^(talk) 07:04, 12 December 2007 (UTC)

I replaced the template with two separate templates. The old version was muddled -- it doesn't make sense to list two different councils in one template. But the new version is not exactly beautiful either. Also, I wasn't sure what names to use in the top bars of the templates. I ended up choosing Fourth Council of Constantinople (869-870) and Fourth Council of Constantinople (879-880) instead of Fourth Council of Constantinople (Roman Catholic) and Fourth Council of Constantinople (Orthodox). The problem is that those names are anachronistic; no one in the year 881 would have said that these two councils were recognized by two different churches. — Lawrence King ^(talk) 07:56, 14 December 2007 (UTC)