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41Ecumenical Center for Human Rights — The Ecumenical Center for Human Rights (Centre Oecumenique des Droits de L Homme) is a human rights organisation founded in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in 1979 to monitor the situation in Haiti under the dictatorship of Jean Claude Duvalier …
42Ecumenical Institute for Distance Theological Studies — The Ecumenical Institute for Distance Theological Studies (EIDTS) is a New Zealand theological college.The Institute was established in 1993 to replace the former Joint Board of Theological Studies, which comprised five churches from 1968 to 1992 …
43ecumenical council — a solemn assembly in the Roman Catholic Church, convoked and presided over by the pope and composed of cardinals, bishops, and certain other prelates whose decrees, when confirmed by the pope, become binding. Also, Ecumenical Council. * * * …
44ecumenical movement. — See under ecumenical (def. 4). * * * …
45ecumenical movement — noun a movement among Protestant groups since the 1800s aimed at achieving universal Christian unity through international or interdenominational organizations. There are also Ecumenical Councils in the Roman Catholic church; since the Great… …
46Ecumenical Councils — Assemblies of Church leaders from the whole world whose decisions are regarded as binding. According to the teachings of most Churches (except the Roman Catholic) the last ecumenical council was the Second Council of Nicaea in 787 before the… …
47ecumenical council — See councils, ecumenical; councils, general …
48ecumenical movement — noun a movement aimed to promote understanding and cooperation among Christian churches; aimed ultimately at universal Christian unity • Hypernyms: ↑religious movement * * * ecumenical movement noun A movement within the Christian church towards… …
49ecumenical patriarchate — noun : the office of the ecumenical patriarch …
50ecumenical movement. — See under ecumenical (def. 4) …
