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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 ...
1649–1688. 1700–1950. v. t. e. The 1604 Book of Common Prayer, [ note 1] often called the Jacobean prayer book or the Hampton Court Book, [ 2] is the fourth version of the Book of Common Prayer as used by the Church of England. It was introduced during the early English reign of James I as a product of the Hampton Court Conference, a summit ...
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 ...
Black Rubric. The term Black Rubric is the popular name for the declaration found at the end of the "Order for the Administration of the Lord's Supper" in the Book of Common Prayer (BCP), the Church of England 's liturgical book. The Black Rubric explains why communicants should kneel when receiving Holy Communion and excludes possible ...
t. e. The history of the Anglican Communion may be attributed mainly to the worldwide spread of British culture associated with the British Empire. Among other things the Church of England spread around the world and, gradually developing autonomy in each region of the world, became the communion as it exists today.
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 ...
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, [1] in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe.
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]