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Trinity

The Christian doctrine, developed through the early Church's ecumenical councils including Nicaea (325 CE) and Constantinople (381 CE), that God exists as three persons — Father, Son, and Holy Spirit — in one divine being, a central and shared point of doctrine across Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant Christianity.

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