The Nicene Creed can serve as a standard of the true Christian faith, indicated in the name “symbol of faith”, which was given to it in Greek and Latin when in those languages the word “symbol” designated a “token for identification”.
According to Wikipedia,
“In the Roman Rite Mass, the Latin text of the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, with “Deum de Deo” (God from God) and “Filioque” (and from the Son), phrases absent in the original text, was previously the only form used for the “profession of faith”. The Roman Missal now refers to it jointly with the Apostles’ Creed as “the Symbol or Profession of Faith or Creed”, describing the second as “the baptismal Symbol of the Roman Church, known as the Apostles’ Creed”.”
The liturgies (church services) of the ancient Churches of Eastern Christianity which include the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, Church of the East, and the Eastern Catholic Churches, utilize the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed, and never the Western Apostles’ Creed.
In the Byzantine Rite, the Nicene Creed is chanted at the Divine Liturgy, directly preceding the Anaphora (Eucharistic Prayer), and is also recited daily at compline.
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