oecumenical council

  • 1Council of Chalcedon — Date 451 A.D. Accepted by Roman Catholics, Old Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, Anglicans, Lutherans Previous council First Council of Ephesus Next council Second Council of Constantinople …

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  • 2oecumenical — Ecumenic Ec u*men ic, Ecumenical Ec u*men ic*al, a. [L. oecumenicus, Gr. ? (sc. ?) the inhabited world, fr. ? to inhabit, from o i^kos house, dwelling. See {Economy}.] General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole… …

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  • 3Ecumenical council — This article is about ecumenical councils in general. For the Roman Catholic councils, see Catholic Ecumenical Councils. For the Salvador Dalí painting, see The Ecumenical Council (painting). Part of a series on Christianity …

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  • 4First Council of Nicaea —     The First Council of Nicaea     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► The First Council of Nicaea     First Ecumenical Council of the Catholic Church, held in 325 on the occasion of the heresy of Arius (Arianism). As early as 320 or 321 St. Alexander,… …

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  • 5TRENT, COUNCIL OF —    an oecumenical council, the eighteenth, held at Trent, and whose sittings, with sundry adjournments, extended from 13th December 1545 until 4th December 1563, the object of which was to define the position and creed of the Church of Rome in… …

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  • 6Fathers of the Church — • The word Father is used in the New Testament to mean a teacher of spiritual things, by whose means the soul of man is born again into the likeness of Christ: Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Fathers of the Church      …

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  • 7Tradition and Living Magisterium — • The word tradition refers sometimes to the thing (doctrine, account, or custom) transmitted from one generation to another sometimes to the organ or mode of the transmission Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Tradition and Living… …

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  • 8St. Tarasius —     St. Tarasius     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► St. Tarasius     Patriarch of Constantinople, date of birth unknown; died 25 February, 806. He was the son of the Patrician and Prefect of Constantinople, George, and his wife Eukratia, and entered… …

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  • 9ВСЕЛЕНСКИЙ VII СОБОР — (II Никейский).Источники Акты (протоколы деяний) VII Собора сохранились со всеми приложениями в греч. оригинале. Старейшей рукописью греч. актов является Vatic. gr. 836 (XIII в.); рукописи XV XVI вв.: Vind. hist. gr. 29, Vatic. gr. 834, Vatic. gr …

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