If it had been called in 1520, when Luther entreated for the calling of an Ecumenical Council to correct the abuses existing in the Church, it is quite possible that Luther would not have come out of the Church of Rome.
The Council of Trent, the eighteenth Ecumenical Council of Rome, met near the time of Luther's death.
In 1890 he was elected delegate to the Methodist Ecumenical Conference and has been several times delegate to the General Conference of the A.
In international assemblies and ecumenical conferences he enjoys every right and receives the same attention that others enjoy and receive.
He was a delegate to the Ecumenical Methodist Conference held in London in 1901, representing the African Methodist Episcopal Church.
As representative of that church, he was a delegate to theEcumenical Conference, held in London, England, September, 1901.
As one of the members of the Ecumenical Conference that met in London in 1881, Bishop Hood made a lasting impression.
Every Ecumenical Conference is a distinct step in the direction, not only of the unification of the Church, but of the unification of the human race.
The Ecumenical Conference of the Methodist Church convened in the Metropolitan Church at Washington, D.
With the addition of the twenty-two canons of the ecumenical council of Nicaea (787), this will give us the whole contents of the official collection of the Greek Church; since then it has remained unchanged.
How have the Greek traditions been respected and provided for in the later Ecumenical Councils, in spite of the countries that held them being in a state of schism!
The case is the same as regards the Ecumenical Councils.
While your siren eloquence has led some doubting Thomases into the barren desert of Atheism, you have driven others to seek a better reason for their religious faith than barbarous tradition and the vote of ecumenical councils.
Justinian enacts him to be ecumenical patriarch, which St. Gregory pronounces to be a title of diabolical pride: being, in fact, the building of spiritual power on temporal lordship.
It was apparently written at Rome after the completion of the Lateran Council in 649, which he mentions in it, and numbers with the five preceding ecumenical Councils.
Such was the first century running from the time that Leo the Isaurian made, in 733, his creature Anastasius ecumenical in the sense that all the remaining Greek empire was put under his patriarchal jurisdiction.
Thus to them the acts of the Church in the Council of Ephesus in 431,(2) the next ecumenical council to the Nicene, throw no light upon the acts of the Church in the Nicene, of which no full record exists.
The Council ended that day, and nothing of it remains to us except a so-called confession of faith in the acts of the Seventh Ecumenical Council, the second of Nicaea, in 787, where it was refuted and rejected.
These six ecumenical patriarchs wielded their authority under Iconoclast emperors for a long time: Anastasius I.
In the patriarch Constantine the ecumenical patriarchate received its completed form.
Justinian never broke from that acknowledgment, but he termed his own bishop ecumenical patriarch in his laws: and every Byzantine bishop clung to the title given by an absolute sovereign.
In 754, Kopronymus, holding Constantine by the hand, presented him to the assembled bishops as his own choice for ecumenical patriarch.
And this volume is, in fact, a prelude to the treatment of the same subject in the last three centuries, down to the Ecumenical Council of the Vatican.
He finally settled in Bohemia, where he died in 1179, the same year in which his tenets were denounced by an ecumenical council.
The year that Peter Waldo died, his tenets were condemned by an ecumenical council.
Reverence the creed-idols set up by the various ecumenical councils.
This did very well until the fourth Ecumenical Council, A.
The first ecumenical council of Nice (325), in its sixth canon, makes only an incidental mention of the Roman bishop.
Fifty-six years later, at the second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople, A.
They knew that the eighteen Ecumenical Councils had declared to be true Christian faith many things not taught in the Bible, and had omitted many things that are taught therein.
Accordingly the first ecumenicalcouncil was held at Nice, A.
Monseigneur Tache, to whom I have already referred, was absent in Rome attending theEcumenical Council, when the disturbance broke out.
The good priests of Red River, and their pious vicar, pere Lestanc, whom Monseigneur had left in charge of the Diocese while he was attending the Ecumenical Council in Rome, came forward with their homage.
The Swedish Ecumenical Council, representing the ecumenical world organizations as well as the larger Swedish Church communities, hereby begs to remind you of our Christian responsibility in this matter.
In sincere communion in the faith, for the Swedish Ecumenical Council: Arch-bishop Erling Eidem, Chairman.
The gifts of the Churches will constitute a welcome proof of that truly ecumenical and Christian spirit which, beyond all differences of race and class, regards every man as a brother.
It is, therefore, the duty of the Christian Churches, and especially of their Ecumenical representative, the Provisional Ecumenical Council, to intervene on behalf of the persecuted.
Unfortunately, we do not know whether any reply was received by the Swedish Ecumenical Council.
Thanks to the financial support of the Ecumenical Committee for Aid to Refugees, Geneva, the number of rations to be distributed in Gurs could be increased.
Gifts for this activity can be deposited under the name "Help for Refugees" on the Swedish Ecumenical Council's postal current account No.
A general, stated anniversary celebration and smaller state celebrations, also representation at the ecumenical conventions of the Evangelical Alliance.
All of the fundamental doctrines, Schmucker declared, are contained in the ecumenical creeds; everything else is trans-fundamental, not required by the General Synod for Christian union and communion.
The purpose of this book was to promote union among the Protestant denominations on the basis of the ecumenical confessions.
Delk in 1912 extolled as the "Twentieth Century Ecumenical Council.
All required assent only to the several ecumenical confessions, the so-called Apostles' and the Nicene Creeds.
The revived conception of an ecumenical church is congenial to their best tradition and has stirred them to reconsider the ways in which they may help in its realization.
An Ecumenical Outlook All Protestantism has been seeking ways of cooperation and dreaming of unity during the past forty years.
In all these ecumenical gatherings, the Disciples have had a recognized place and have taken an active part.
In brief, no communion has been more active in all the cooperative enterprises of the churches in recent years, or more sympathetic with the ecumenical trend toward thinking less of the churches and more of the Church.
What is more explicitly called the Ecumenical Movement began with a World Conference on Foreign Missions, at New York City in 1900.
Among these numerous synods the most prominent are those which the tradition of the Roman Catholic church has classed as ecumenical councils.
There was also a guarantee of full liberty for future conclaves andecumenical councils.
Other prelates proceeded to greater extremes than this, four of them having the hardihood to appeal from the Bull to a further Ecumenical Council.
The heretics were anathematized by the Second Lateran Ecumenical Council held in Rome in 1139.
Under the Empire the ecumenical council had been looked upon as the highest representative organ of the Catholic Church; but the earlier centuries of the middle ages witnessed the convocation of no ecumenical councils.
Other councils of the first period now recognized asecumenical by the Church both East and West are Constantinople I.
In 325 the first general or ecumenical council, representing theoretically the entire Christian Church, was held at Nicaea.
As a result the ecumenical council came into existence especially for the purpose of settling disputed questions of doctrine, and giving to the collective episcopate the opportunity to express its voice in a final and official way.
In its first articles, it had recognized the Council of Basel as ecumenical and as superior to Pope Eugenius IV, with obligation to everyone to obey its decrees.
An ecumenical council summoned by him at Constantinople in 553 accepted a formula of belief upon which he hoped both orthodox and monophysites could unite.
This was followed in 325 by the first universal or ecumenical council of the whole Christian church which met at Nicaea to decide upon the orthodoxy of the teachings of Arius of Alexandria.
And although this step implied a condemnation of the council of Chalcedon itself, and was consequently opposed in the West, he forced the fifth ecumenical council of Constantinople in 553 to sanction it.
Accordingly, Constantine intervened and summoned the ecumenical council of Nicaea to decide upon the orthodoxy of Arius.
It is to be noted that the author is speaking of ecumenical or world councils.
This was the first ecumenical council, and there were three others[176] of these before the arrival of the barbarians made an assembly of the whole church impossible.
The second ecumenical council, 381, which was in reality only a synod of bishops from Thrace, Asia and Syria, convened by Theodosius with a view to uniting the church upon the basis of the Orthodox faith.
The council approved the first five ecumenical councils and reaffirmed the Nicene and "Niceno-Constantinopolitan" creeds.
Yet, despite its sectional character, the council came in time to be regarded as ecumenical alike in the West and in the East.
Constantinople just before the council of Chalcedon in order to prove the orthodoxy of the Fathers of the second ecumenical council.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ecumenical" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
