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relationships among their churches and
promote Christian unity. The
adjective e****enical is thus
applied to any non-denominational or inter-denominational initiative...
- An
e****enical council, also
called general council, is a
meeting of
bishops and
other church authorities to
consider and rule on
questions of Christian...
- The
e****enical patriarch of
Constantinople (Gr****: Οἰκουμενικός Πατριάρχης, romanized: Oikoumenikós Patriárchēs) is the
archbishop of
Constantinople and...
- The
E****enical Patriarchate of
Constantinople (Gr****: Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, romanized: Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos...
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Second E****enical Council of the Vatican,
commonly known as the
Second Vatican Council or
Vatican II, was the 21st and most
recent e****enical council...
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According to the
Catholic Church, a
Church Council is
e****enical ("world-wide") if it is "a
solemn congregation of the
Catholic bishops of the
world at...
- cardinals, who
sometimes attempted to ****ert the
authority of
Catholic E****enical Councils over the pope's.
Conciliarism holds that the
supreme authority...
- In the
history of Christianity, the
first seven e****enical councils include the following: the
First Council of
Nicaea in 325, the
First Council of Constantinople...
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E****enical creeds is an
umbrella term used in
Lutheran tradition to
refer to
three creeds: the
Nicene Creed, the Apostles'
Creed and the
Athanasian Creed...
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Bartholomew (born
Dimitrios Arhondonis; 29
February 1940) is the
current E****enical Patriarch of
Constantinople since 1991. In
accordance with his title,...
