ond place to effect a union of the whole Protestant body, in order to appear before the council as a phalanx strong in union and unanimous and harmonious in faith. To bring about this result, especially through the ex- ertions of the duke Christopher of Wurtemberg, the Naumburg Ecclesiastical Convention was convened. In the first place, the duke Christopher came to an under- standing with the elector Frederick III, and his son-in- law, duke John Frederick, that all should subscribe anew the Augsburg Confession of 1530, accept the Apology and the Smalcald articles, remain steadfast in their confes- sion, tolerate no sects in their lands, and forbid their theologians to renew their attacks. . They also agreed to invite the other rulers and states to appear at a con- vention to be held, where every'effort for a union should be made on the basis of these stipidations. After the landgrave Philip of Hesse '^aiid the duke John Fred- erick had approved of this plan, the elector August of Saxony issued a proclamation, Dec. 6, 1560, summon- ing all evangelical rulers and states to meet at Naum- burg Jan. 20, 1561, for the purpose of subscribing anew the Augsburg Confession, by means of which at the future council a unanimous and firm confession could be presented. There were present or represented by delegates all the Protestant rulers of Germany, with the exception of the dukes Henry and AVilliam of Lune- burg, who, like king Frederick of Denmark, declared in. a letter that they would accept all the resolutions of the assembly. The tenth session, January 29, brought about the result that the confession of 1530, as com- pared with the different editions of 1540 and 1542, shoidd be the common confession of all, and that in the preface to the new edition the essential harmony of the Apology and the Variata of 1540 should be emphasized. This new edition, which was to be presented to the em- peror, was signed by the elector Frederick of the Palati- nate, the elector August, the landgrave A^'olfgang of Zweibrllcken, duke Christopher of Wiirtemberg, mar- grave Charles of Baden, landgrave Philip of Hesse, count William of Hohenstein in behalf of the elector of Bran- denburg, count Otto von Seclen in behalf of the palatine George, George Albinus in behalf of the margrave John of Brandenburg, Wolf von Koderitz in behalf of the mar- grave George Frederick of Brandenburg, count Ludwig von Eberstein in behalf of the duke Barnim of Pome- rania. Christian Kissaw in behalf of the duke's brother, Joh. Trockenbroot in behalf of the princes of Anhalt, and Sebastian Glaser in behalf of the count of Hcnne- berg. Some of the delegates and princes, ho^vever, es- pecially duke Ulrich of Mecklenburg and John Fred- erick of Saxony, induced by Flacian theologians, re- fused to subscribe the preface, because it was not severe enough in anathematizing the Lutheran errors and sects. The latter even left Naumburg at the fifteenth session, February 3, thus frustrating the union among the Protestants, which was almost achieved, and causing the discord to appear more conspicuous. On the same day the imperial and papal delegates made their appearance, and presented the breve of pope Pius IV, which invited the Protestants to the council ; they were especially loud in their praises of the forthcoming council, as the best means of settling all the pending questions. The rulers and states promised to take the matter into considera- tion ; the result of it -was that they not only returned the breve in which they were addressed as " beloved sons," against which address the)' protested, since they wished neither the pope to be their father nor them to be his sons ; but they also refused to attend the council, as in no way would it meet their demands. Finally, tJiey also addressed a letter to the kings of France and Navarre in behalf and favor of the persecuted Hugue- nots in France, accompanying the same with a copy of the newly-subscribed Augsburg Coni'ession; they also sent a copy to England, Scotland, and Sweden. After having delivered to the imperial delegates a letter for the emperor, the convention was closed on Feb. 8, 1561. See Calinich, Der Naumburger Fiirstentag (Gotha, 1870) ;
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Gieseler, Church History, iv, 220, notes; Hase, History of the Christian Church, \^. AM; Wcssenberg, Uesch. der Kirchcnversammlungen des W"' u. IT'"" Jahr. iii, 358, 359; I'lanck, Oeschichte der Protest. Theoloyie, iii, 111, 124, 183: Weiiilecker, Neue Beitriige zur Geschichte d. Reformation, vol. ii ; Dr. Beck, Johann Fredrick der Mitilere, etc. (Weimar, 1858), i, 356 sq.; Gelbke, Der ■Naumburf/ische Ftirstent(i(j, etc. (Leipsic, 1793) ; Salig, Vollstdndiye Historie der A u(/sburg. Confession, vol. iii ; Heppc, (leschichte des JJeutxc/ien Protestantismns in den Jahnn 1550-1581. (J. II.W.)
Nauplia, on Xapoli di Romania, a seaport town of Greece, and capital of an eparchy of its own name, situ- ated tifty-eight miles south-west of Athens, with a pop- ulation of 8543 in 1870, was the seat of the (ireek gov- ernment after the independent establishment of the modern kingdom in 1829, and is noted in ecclesiastical history as the place of a national synod held there July 15 to 27, 1833, for the purpose of regenerating the Greek Church. The sj'nod was convened by the then minis- ters of public worship and of education, instead of the patriarch, who resided at Constantinople, and was sub- ject to Turkish influence. There were many causes for the convocation of the Nauplia Synod, not the least of which was the proper placing of all episcopal officers, many of them having been consecrated during the war of freedom, and being therefore without patriarchal or- dination. At the time of the calling of the Nauplia Synod there were in the Church of Greece twenty-two canoniail, or regularly consecrated prelt^tes, and twelve uneanonical episcopates, i. e. such as had not patriarchal ordination; and besides these some twenty ex-bishops, deprived of their sees by the troubles of the times. The council was therefore called to settle the following two propositions, and they were approved by the twenty-six prelates who attended the synod :