Adjective : an ecumenical marriage. ,an ecumenical meal of German, Italian, and Chinese dishes. From Dictionary.com.
We must not forget, however, that there were also bishops elsewhere who conducted a so-called oecumenical correspondence and enjoyed great influence, as, e.g. From Wordnik.com. [History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7)] Reference
The local mosque's oecumenical affairs debating team?. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
In a style that is more down-to-earth and oecumenical than Brouwer's, Heyting presents the intuitionistic versions of various basic subjects in everyday mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer] Reference
The remnants of these sees left to the oecumenical patriarch, after. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
It was in fact the oecumenical council of modern reason and philosophy. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution] Reference
The oecumenical patriarch took the place of the emperor; his court, the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Second Council of Nicaea, the oecumenical character of which he acknowledged. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Presbyterian ministers were entitled to place and voice in oecumenical councils. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 1] Reference
To devout Christians, brought up in the oecumenical traditions of the Roman Empire. From Wordnik.com. [Progress and History] Reference
The interpretation of a Council, especially if oecumenical, was accounted decisive. From Wordnik.com. [Inspiration and Interpretation: Seven Sermons Preached Before the University of Oxford: With Preliminary Remarks: Being an Answer to a Volume Entitled "Essays and Reviews."] Reference
There is now no emperor and no Court to justify the oecumenical patriarch's position. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
The thought of an oecumenical council having its leading feature dislocated by my trifling experiment!. From Wordnik.com. [The Poet at the Breakfast-Table] Reference
The oecumenical territory is divided into 100 eparchies or dioceses (83 metropolitans and 17 bishops). From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner] Reference
Greek told Dr. Gelzer in 1898, is not the king at Athens, but the oecumenical patriarch at Constantinople. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
History shows that periods of progress in theology always follow in the wake of great oecumenical councils. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Nothing could be more to his purpose than the pope's: "Desinat incessere novitas vetustatem" The oecumenical. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
You can make a getaway undiplomatic to Melbourne's oecumenical airport from important international airports. From Wordnik.com. [Article directories Celibataire Urbaine] Reference
Cardinals are at the oecumenical Council, still at their old business of trying to stop the movement of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Sermons, Addresses and Reviews] Reference
The idea of a general or oecumenical council (the words mean the same thing) may well have been Constantine's own. From Wordnik.com. [The Arian Controversy] Reference
Of the later oecumenical councils we have not only the detailed Acts, but also numbers of letters connected with them. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
"Lothair's oecumenical council," said Hugo Bohun, as he entered the crowded room, and looked around him with an air of not ungraceful impertinence. From Wordnik.com. [Lothair] Reference
For more than a hundred years the conception of the struggle as an oecumenical struggle, as something affecting the whole body of Europe, continued. From Wordnik.com. [Europe and the Faith "Sine auctoritate nulla vita"] Reference
A privileged place at the oecumenical councils and signed their decisions immediately after the patriarchs. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
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