- Church, an
ecclesial community is a
Christian religious group that does not meet the
Catholic definition of a "Church".
Although the word "
ecclesial" itself...
- Lay
ecclesial ministry is the term
adopted by the
United States Conference of
Catholic Bishops to
identify the
relatively new
category of
pastoral ministers...
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Bishops pla**** a
major role in po****rizing them
under the name
basic ecclesial communities (BECs; also base communities; Spanish:
comunidades eclesiales...
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interest in lay
societies culminated in the
Second Vatican Council, but lay
ecclesial societies have long
existed in
forms such as
sodalities (defined in the...
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Church architecture refers to the
architecture of
Christian buildings, such as churches, chapels, convents, seminaries, etc. It has
evolved over the two...
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Ecclesiastical separatism is the
withdrawal of
people and
churches from
Christian denominations,
usually to form new denominations. In the 16th and 17th...
- The
Declaration of
Ravenna is a
Roman Catholic–Eastern
Orthodox do****ent
issued on 13
October 2007, re-****erting that the
bishop of Rome is
indeed the...
- This is a list of
organisations covering Catholic laity. It aims to list
ecclesial movements of
unspecified standing. For
international Catholic movements...
- "evangelical" and "mainline" are
rapidly changing and
giving way to new
ecclesial realities."
Confessionalism is a term emplo**** by
historians to refer...
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Eucharistic theology is a
branch of
Christian theology which treats doctrines concerning the Holy Eucharist, also
commonly known as the Lord's
Supper and...