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Meanings of oecumenical in English

Of worldwide scope or applicability.

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Concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions.

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Examples for "ecumenic"
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Perhaps she can even help lead them back to the Ecumenic fold.
The pretender's crown
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They have all turned from the Ecumenic church, and follow Reformation paths.
The pretender's crown
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This battle is larger than Gallin or Aulun, larger than Reformation or Ecumenic law.
The pretender's crown
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Linda Hogan, professor of ecumenics at Trinity College Dublin, is preoccupied with that change.
The Irish Times
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Silver witchpower shot up, bright against the blue sky, and the Ecumenic armies erupted in cheers.
The pretender's crown
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My library is gnostic, oecumenic and spiritual.
The Queen Pedauque
Usage of oecumenical in English
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Could you not have been called by something rather less oecumenical?
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume ...
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Numerous problems are now postponed till the oecumenical Council.
Erasmus and the Age of Reformation
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The thought of an oecumenical council having its leading feature dislocated by my trifling experiment!
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
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An oecumenical council (called by the Latins the 8th) was convoked at Constantinople to decide this matter.
The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia, Volume 1 of 28
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Name the oecumenical creeds.
An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism
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For a clear intelligence, there is nothing to choose between the infallibility of oecumenical councils or of Popes, and that of the Bible.
Albert Dürer
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For more than a hundred years the conception of the struggle as an oecumenical struggle, as something affecting the whole body of Europe, continued.
Europe and the Faith / "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"
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The Catholic or Œcumenical Creeds make no affirmation whatever concerning the Bible.
The Right and Wrong Uses of the Bible
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The Holy Father, Pius IX., has resolved to summon an Oecumenical Council.
Lothair
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This is reckoned by the Greeks as the Eighth Oecumenical Council.
The Church and the Barbarians / Being an Outline of the History ...
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It took until 1961 for the Oecumenical Patriarch to recognize the exarch's successors.
Christianity: the first three thousand years
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He is in Ireland, arranging about the Oecumenical Council.
Lothair
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He announced his intention of convoking an Oecumenical Council.
History of the Conflict Between Religion and Science
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In the first place, the idea of calling an Oecumenical Council had been much in the air.
England under the Tudors
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It was fitting that the first Oecumenical Conference should meet in City Road, the cathedral of Methodism.
Great Britain and Her Queen
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It would be seen that Hermann despised the Pope, the Emperor, and the Oecumenical Council already assembled at Trent.
Studies from Court and Cloister: being essays, historical and li...
Oecumenical through the time