Definition of ecumenical council Ecumenical council
e•cu•men•i•cal coun•cil
We found 1 definitions of ecumenical council from 1 different sources.
Advertising
What does ecumenical council mean?
Wikipedia 
-
An Ecumenical Council (also sometimes Oecumenical Council) or general council is a meeting of the bishops of the church of the whole world who have come together to discuss matters of Church doctrine and practice.
The word is from the Greek language ", which means "inhabited", and was originally an other name for the territory of the Roman Empire, because the earliest councils were all called in by Roman Emperors. In later times it was used in the sense of "world-wide" or "general."
The first seven Ecumenical Councils.
The period of Christianity from the First Council of Nicaea (325) to the Second Council of Nicaea (787) is called the period of the Seven Ecumenical Councils.
