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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



... with the conquests of Alexander the Great, there had emerged the conception of the whole inhabited world as a unity and totality, the idea of the whole human race as one. We may conveniently call it the ecumenical idea—the principle of the ecumene or inhabited world, as opposed to the principle of the polis or city. Promoted by the vast extension of the geographical limits of the Greek world resulting from Alexander's ...
— The Idea of Progress - An Inquiry Into Its Origin And Growth • J. B. Bury

... thousand years before (see p. 404). The Papal troops were disbanded, but the Pope, Pius IX., still retained all his spiritual authority, the Vatican with its 11,000 chambers being reserved to him as a place of residence. Just a few months before the loss of his temporal sovereignty a great Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church had proclaimed the doctrine of Papal Infallibility, which declares decrees of the Pope "on questions of faith ...
— A General History for Colleges and High Schools • P. V. N. Myers



Words linked to "Ecumenical" :   unsectarian, general, ecumenism, comprehensive, nonsectarian, ecumenic, oecumenical, ecumenical movement, world-wide, ecumenical council, universal



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