120px|thumb|The Council of Nicaea, with Arius depicted as defeated, lying under Emperor Constantine's feet '''Marcus of Calabria''' ({{fl.|325}}) was a fourth-century Roman bishop and delegate to the first Council of Nicaea.<ref>Arnold Hugh Martin Jones, Constantine and the Conversion of Europe University of Toronto Press 1962 p 130.</ref><ref>Richard Patrick Crosland Hanson, R. P. Hanson, ''The Search for the Christian Doctrine of God: The Arian Controversy'' 318–381 Continuum, 2005 [https://books.google.com/books?id=tclFM-nRh2IC&dq=Marcus+of+Calabria+%2B+bishop&pg=PA156 p156]</ref>
Little is known of his life career or Episcopal work, and he would have remained largely unknown to history except that he was one of only five delegates from the Catholic Western Roman Empire to attend first Council of Nicaea.<ref>Patrum Nicaenorum nomina [http://rbedrosian.com/Downloads3/Gelzer_Patrum_nicaenorum_nomina.pdf page 89] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729104732/http://rbedrosian.com/Downloads3/Gelzer_Patrum_nicaenorum_nomina.pdf |date=2013-07-29 }}</ref><ref>W. A. Jurgens, The Faith of the Early Fathers: St. Augustine to the end of the patristic age, Liturgical Press 1970 p280.</ref><ref>Charles M. Odahl, Constantine and the Christian Empire, Routledge 2010 p 156.</ref>
He is listed as delegate 208 in the Greek version of the Patrum Nicaenorum Nomina as being Bishop of Calabria in Southern Italy;<ref>[http://rbedrosian.com/Downloads3/Gelzer_Patrum_nicaenorum_nomina.pdf Patrum Nicaenorum Nomina.] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130729104732/http://rbedrosian.com/Downloads3/Gelzer_Patrum_nicaenorum_nomina.pdf |date=2013-07-29 }}</ref> however, he is listed as a bishop from Dacia in the Syriac<ref>[http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/syriac_misc.htm Extracts from the Syriac ms. No. 14528] in the British Museum</ref> and the Greek text "Nicene Catalogue of Fathers and Cities", by Theodorus Lector,<ref>[http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/syriac_misc.htm Nicene Theodorus Lector Catalogue of Fathers and Cities]</ref> both of which record the proceedings of the First Council of Nicaea.
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== External links == * [https://web.archive.org/web/20131029234314/http://www.fourthcentury.com/index.php/councils-and-creeds Updated English Translations of the Creed, Rulings (Canons), and Letters Connected to the Council.] * {{Cite CE1913|wstitle=The First Council of Nicaea}} * {{Cite EB1911 |wstitle=Nicaea, Council of |volume=19 |pages=640–642 |first=Carl Theodor |last=Mirbt}} * [http://www.ctlibrary.com/ch/2005/issue85/theroadtonicaea.html The Road to Nicaea] A descriptive overview of the events of the Council, by John Anthony McGuckin. * [http://www.tertullian.org/rpearse/nicaea.html The Council of Nicaea and the Bible] This article deals with the legend that the canon of the bible was discussed at the council.
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