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Ecumenical   /ˌɛkjumˈɛnɪkəl/   Listen
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Ecumenical, Ecumenic  adj.  (Written also oecumenical)  General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.
Ecumenical Bishop, a title assumed by the popes.
Ecumenical council. See under Council.






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"Ecumenical" Quotes from Famous Books



... already been some local councils at which the bishops and priests of a single province had been present. For the first time, in 324,[175] Constantine convoked a General Assembly of the World (an ecumenical council) at Nicaea, in Asia Minor; 318 ecclesiastics were in attendance. They discussed questions of theology and drew up the Nicene Creed, the Catholic confession of faith. Then the emperor wrote to all the churches, bidding them "conform to the will of God as expressed by the ...
— History Of Ancient Civilization • Charles Seignobos



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