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| - The Council of Auroria was a council of Hosian bishops convened in Auroria in Selucia by the Aurorian Bishop Adeodatus Florianus in 533 CE. This ecumenical council was the first effort to attain consensus in the church through an assembly representing all of Hosianism. Its main accomplishments were the creation of the first international Hosian church, the Holy Apostolic Hosian Church of Terra, formalizing Hosian doctrine, the construction of the Creed of Auroria, establishing the Hosian Biblical cannon, and promulgation of early canon law. The Council was convened as a result of serious Pneumatological controversies regarding the nature of Eliyahu, His relation to God, and His humanity and divinity. The Council rejected the view, followed by the Hobrazian Church and its representative Eudemos (Evdemoz), that the Spirit of God, while distinct from God, is not a separate Person or Being; according to the Hobrazian view, God and His Spirit have the same Essence and are the same Person, but the distinction between the two is real and ontological. This position was later described as "Unitarianism". The Council also rejected the view promoted by Ordius that Eliyahu was separate from and subordinate to God. Instead, the Council formalized the mainstream Hosian view that Eliyahu is distinct from God, was pre-existent with God, and also originating from God without becoming a being separate from Him, so that Eliyahu and God are of a similar substance and both can be rightfully called God, a position that was later called "Binitarianism".
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