See also:

• OECUMENICAL (through the Lat. from Gr. oiKOVµevI.KOS, universal, belonging to the whole inhabited world, i] oiKovµtvf sc. y;7, aides, to dwell)

OECUMENICAL (through the See also:

• LAT

Lat. from Gr. oiKOVµevI.KOS, universal, belonging to the whole inhabited See also:

• WORLD

world, i] oiKovµtvf sc. y;7, aides, to dwell)  , a word chiefly used in the sense of belonging to the universal See also:

• CHRISTIAN
• CHRISTIAN, WILLIAM (1608-1663)

Christian See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

Church . It is thus specifically applied to the See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general See also:

• COUNCILS

councils of the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early church (see See also:

• COUNCIL (Lat. concilium, from cum, together, and the root cal, to call)

COUNCIL) . , In the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman Church a council is regarded as See also:

• OECUMENICAL (through the Lat. from Gr. oiKOVµevI.KOS, universal, belonging to the whole inhabited world, i] oiKovµtvf sc. y;7, aides, to dwell)

oecumenical when it has been summoned from the whole church under the See also:

• PRESIDENCY

presidency of the See also:

• POPE (Gr. irarraas, post-classical Lat. papa, father)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1688–1744)
• POPE, ALEXANDER (1763-1835)
• POPE, JANE (1742-1818)
• POPE, JOHN (1822-1892)
• POPE, SIR THOMAS (c. 1507-1559)

pope or his legates; the decrees confirmed by the pope are binding . The word has also been applied to assemblies of other religious bodies, such as the Oecumenical Methodist Conferences, which met for the first See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time in 1881 . " Oecumenical " has also been the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of the See also:

• PATRIARCH (M.E. and O. Fr. patriarche, Lat. patriarcha, Gr. aarpuipxtis, from srarptu., clan, and apxil, rule)

patriarch of See also:

• CONSTANTINOPLE
• CONSTANTINOPLE, COUNCILS OF

Constantinople since the 6th See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century (see ORTHODOX EASTERN CHURCH) .