Ecumenical council

Ecumenical council

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An ecumenical council is a conference of ecclesiastical dignitaries and theological experts convened to discuss and settle matters of Church doctrine and practice in which those entitled to vote are convoked from the whole world and which secures the approbation of the whole Church.The word "ecumenical" derives from the Greek language οἰκουμένη , which literally means "the inhabited world", but which was also applied more narrowly to mean the Roman Empire.Bishops belonging to what became known as the Church of the East participated in none of the councils later than the second, and further noteworthy schisms led to non-participation by other members of what had previously been considered a single Christian Church.Later ecumenical councils thus included bishops of only parts of the Church as previously constituted and were rejected or ignored by Christians not belonging to those parts. ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- About the author(s): Stained glass: Alfred Handel, d. 1946[2], photo:Toby Hudson License: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 (CC BY-SA 3.0) Author(s): Toby Hudson (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:99of9) ---Image-Copyright-and-Permission--- This channel is dedicated to make Wikipedia, one of the biggest knowledge databases in the world available to people with limited vision. Article available under a Creative Commons license Image source in video