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Ecumenical council   /ˌɛkjumˈɛnɪkəl kˈaʊnsəl/   Listen
Ecumenical council

noun
1.
(early Christian church) one of seven gatherings of bishops from around the known world under the presidency of the Pope to regulate matters of faith and morals and discipline.






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"Ecumenical council" Quotes from Famous Books



... ECUMENICAL COUNCIL, an ecclesiastical council representative, or accepted as representative, of the Church universal or Catholic. ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood

... frequently; for instance, in the early 4th century at Elvira, Ancyra, Neo-Caesarea and Arles, the last representing the entire Western world. Such gatherings were especially common during the great doctrinal controversies of the 4th century. In 325 the first general or ecumenical council, representing theoretically the entire Christian Church, was held at Nicaea. Other councils of the first period now recognized as ecumenical by the Church both East and West are Constantinople I. (381), ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 - "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" • Various



Words linked to "Ecumenical council" :   Nicaea, First Council of Nicaea, Council of Chalcedon, First Council of Constantinople, Ephesus, Chalcedon, Constantinople, Council of Ephesus, council, Third Council of Constantinople, Second Council of Nicaea, Second Council of Constantinople



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