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Catholic Church. According to the Catholic Church, a Church Council is ecumenical ("world-wide") if it is "a solemn congregation of the Catholic bishops of the world at the invitation of the Pope to decide on matters of the Church with him". [ 1] The wider term "ecumenical council" relates to Church councils recognised by both Eastern and ...
Icon depicting the Emperor Constantine (centre), accompanied by the bishops of the First Council of Nicaea (325), holding the Niceno–Constantinopolitan Creed of 381. In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical councils include the following: the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Council of Constantinople in 381, the Council of Ephesus in 431, the Council of Chalcedon ...
An ecumenical council, also called general council, is a meeting of bishops and other church authorities to consider and rule on questions of Christiandoctrine, administration, discipline, and other matters[1]in which those entitled to vote are convokedfrom the whole world (oikoumene) and which secures the approbation of the whole Church. [2]
Indulgence. In the teaching of the Catholic Church, an indulgence ( Latin: indulgentia, from indulgeo, 'permit') is "a way to reduce the amount of punishment one has to undergo for (forgiven) sins". [ 1] The Catechism of the Catholic Church describes an indulgence as "a remission before God of the temporal punishment due to sins whose guilt has ...
The Free Church of England was founded principally by EvangelicalLow Churchclergy and congregations in response to what were perceived as attempts (inspired by the Oxford Movement) to re-introduce traditional Catholicpractices into the Church of England, England's established church. The first congregation was formed by the ReverendJames Shore ...
First Seven Ecumenical Councils. First Council of Nicaea (325 A.D.) Arianism – the belief that the Son of God did not always exist, but was created by—and is therefore distinct from—God the Father. The First Council of Nicaea declared this belief heretical, as did the First Council of Constantinople. Easter date – the date for ...
The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity is annually coordinated by the World Council of Churches, with participation by its member Churches, which include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Old Catholic Church, the Moravian Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Anglican Communion, the ...
Ecumenism, from the Greek word " oikoumene ", meaning "the whole inhabited world" (cf. Acts 17.6; Mt 24.14; Heb 2.5), is the promotion of cooperation and unity among Christians. The Union of Christendom is a traditional Catholic view of ecumenism; the view is that every non-Catholic Christian ecclesial community is destined to return to the ...