Some theologians preferred the use of the term ("homoioúsios" or alternative uncontracted form ὁμοιοούσιος "homoiοoúsios"; from , "hómoios", "similar", rather than , "homós", "same, common") in order to emphasize distinctions among the three persons in the Godhead, but the term "homoousion" became a consistent mark of Nicene orthodoxy in both East and West. According to this doctrine, Jesus Christ is the physical manifestation of "Logos" (or the Word), and consequently possesses all of the inherent, ineffable perfections which religion and philosophy attribute to the Supreme Being. In the language that became universally accepted after the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381, three distinct and infinite hypostases, or divine persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, fully possess the very same divine "ousia".