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" By far the most influential credal product of the fourth century was the formula which is sometimes technically called the Niceno-Constantinopolitan creed.1 Ordinary Christians are familiar with it as the creed of the Holy Eucharist, where it is misnamed the Nicene creed. Its hybrid title combines the popular but erroneous tradition that it is none other than the true Nicene creed enlarged with the theory, "

J.N.D. Kelly , Early Christian Creeds


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J.N.D. Kelly quote : By far the most influential credal product of the fourth century was the formula which is sometimes technically called the Niceno-Constantinopolitan creed.1 Ordinary Christians are familiar with it as the creed of the Holy Eucharist, where it is misnamed the Nicene creed. Its hybrid title combines the popular but erroneous tradition that it is none other than the true Nicene creed enlarged with the theory,