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OECUMENICAL (through the See also: Church
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It is thus specifically applied to the general
See also: councils of the early church (see COUNCIL)
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, In the See also: Roman Church a council is regarded as oecumenical when it has been summoned from the whole church under the See also: presidency of the See also: pope or his legates; the decrees confirmed by the pope are binding
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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 in 1881
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" Oecumenical " has also been the title of the patriarch of Constantinople since the 6th century (see ORTHODOX EASTERN CHURCH)
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