In the early Church, the first canons were decreed by bishops united in " Ecumenical " councils ( the Emperor summoning all of the known world's bishops to attend with at least the acknowledgement of the Bishop of Rome ) or " local " councils ( bishops of a region or territory ).

Category: Ecumenical councils

Category: Ecumenical councils

Anglicans and confessional Protestants, accept either the first seven or the first four as Ecumenical councils.

#* Quinisext Council, also called Council in Trullo ( 692 ) addressed matters of discipline ( in amendment to the 5th and 6th councils ). The Ecumenical status of this council was repudiated by the western churches.

The Lutheran World Federation, in ecumenical dialogues with the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople has affirmed all of the first seven councils as ecumenical and authoritative.

The Council of 1123 is reckoned in the series of Ecumenical councils by the Catholic Church.

While the previous seven ecumenical councils are recognized as ecumenical and authoritative by both East and West, many Eastern Orthodox Christians recognize the council of 879 as the Eighth Ecumenical Council, arguing that it annulled the earlier one.

Nicaea (; ) was a Hellenic city in northwestern Anatolia, and is primarily known as the site of the First and Second Councils of Nicaea ( the first and seventh Ecumenical councils in the early history of the Church ), the Nicene Creed ( which comes from the First Council ), and as the capital city of the Empire of Nicaea.

Collectively, these councils are accepted as having ecumenical status by Orthodox Christians, some of whom call them the Fifth Council of Constantinople and the Ninth Ecumenical Council.

In the early Church, the first canons were decreed by bishops united in " Ecumenical " councils ( the Emperor summoning all of the known world's bishops to attend with at least the acknowledgement of the Bishop of Rome ) or " local " councils ( bishops of a region or territory ).

The Lateran Palace has also been the site of five Ecumenical councils.

Category: Ecumenical councils

The result of these councils is accepted as having the authority of an ecumenical council by Orthodox Christians who sometimes call it the Ninth Ecumenical Council.

Principal supporters of the view that this series of councils comprises the Ninth Ecumenical Council include Metropolitan Hierotheos ( Vlachos ) of Nafpaktos, Fr.

Collectively, these councils are accepted as having ecumenical status by Orthodox Christians, some of whom call them the Fifth Council of Constantinople and the Ninth Ecumenical Council.

Paleo-orthodoxy ( from Ancient Greek παλαιός " ancient " and Koine Greek ὀρθοδοξία " correct belief ") is a Protestant Christian theological movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries which focuses on the consensual understanding of the faith among the Ecumenical councils and Church Fathers.

* 553: Second Ecumenical Council of Constantinople condemned the errors of Origen of Alexandria, the Three Chapters, and confirmed the first four general councils.

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

In the Ecumenical Patriarchate, bishops of modern dioceses are often given a titular see alongside their modern one ( for example, the Archbishop of Thyateira and Great Britain ).

" These are likely the same Cathari mentioned in Canon 8 of the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea in 325 AD, which states "... f those called Cathari come over the Catholic faith, let them first make profession that they are willing to communicate full communion with the twice-married, and grant pardon to those who have lapsed ..."

While the Councils are part of the " historic formularies " of Anglican tradition, it is difficult to locate an explicit reference in Anglicanism to the unconditional acceptance of all Seven Ecumenical Councils.

Derived from Greek oikoumenikos (), " ecumenical " means " worldwide " but generally is assumed to be limited to the Roman Empire in this context as in Augustus ' claim to be ruler of the oikoumene / world ; the earliest extant uses of the term for a council are Eusebius ' Life of Constantine 3. 6 around 338, which states "" ( he convoked an Ecumenical Council ); Athanasius ' Ad Afros Epistola Synodica in 369 ;< ref >

Ecumenical statements and agreements are subject to the ratification of the presbyteries.

Usual titles are Your Holiness for a patriarch ( with Your All-Holiness for the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ), Your Beatitude for an archbishop in charge of an autocephalous church, Your Eminence for an archbishop, Master or Your Grace for a bishop and Father for priests, deacons and monks though there are variations between the various Orthodox Churches.

The majority of Orthodox Christians ( Russians, in particular ) follow the Julian Calendar in calculating their ecclesiastical feasts, but many ( including the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Church of Greece ), while preserving the Julian calculation for feasts on the Paschal Cycle, have adopted the Revised Julian Calendar ( at present coinciding with the Gregorian Calendar ) to calculate those feasts which are fixed according to the calendar date.

The monastic communities of Mount Athos are stavropegial and are directly under the jurisdiction of Ecumenical Patriarch who is the only bishop with jurisdiction thereover.

However, whether these canonical rights are limited only to his own patriarchate or are universal throughout the Orthodox Church is the subject of debate, especially between the Ecumenical Patriarchate and the Moscow Patriarchate.

The contents are abundantly footnoted with references to sources of the teaching, in particular the Scriptures, the Church Fathers, and the Ecumenical Councils.

Among the paintings she served as a model for are: Imperial Monument to the Child-Woman, Gala ; Memory of the Child-Woman ; The Angelus of Gala ; Gala and " The Angelus " of Millet before the Imminent Arrival of the Conical Anamorphoses ; William Tell and Gradiva ; The Old Age of William Tell ; The Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus ; The Ecumenical Council ; Corpus Hypercubus ; Galatea of the Spheres ; and others.

The Catalogue of Tzarigrad Patriarchy ( April 1855 ), Athens Sintagma, letter of Tzarigrad Patriarch Grigorius to St. Petar I Petrovic Njegos ( dated 29 January 1798 ), and against the claims of other documents, see here and here ( a list of historical documents ; external links are in Serbian ) are interpreted by the MOC that the Church of Montenegro was independent and autocephalous until Yugoslav regent Alexander I of Yugoslavia abolished it and incorporated, by the decree of 17 ( 30 ) June 1920, with Serb-Orthodox churches into a Serbian Orthodox Church, an act which received subsequently canonical recognition from the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

There are different forms of written intercessory prayer in various churches: Baptist, Catholic, Church of England, Ecumenical, Emerging Church, Methodist.

Among them are: Oferenda, 1942, in bronze, located in the Ecumenical Cemetery São Francisco de Paula ; Monumento ao Colono, 1958, in bronze and granite, in the Primeiro de Maio Square ; Monumento ao Bispo Dom Joaquim Ferreira de Mello, 1942, in bronze and granite, on the Avenue Dom Joaquim ; Sentinela Farroupilha, 1935, in bronze, 20 de Setembro Square ; As Três Idades do Trabalho, in granite, Coronel Pedro Osório Square ; Dr. Luiz Pereira Lima, 1958, in bronze, Piratinino de Almeida Square ; Monumento ao Coronel Pedro Osório, 1954, in bronze and granite, Coronel Pedro Osório Square ; Monumento à Mãe, 1968, in bronze and granite, Coronel Pedro Osório Square ; Monumento ao Dr. José Brusque 1968, in bronze and granite, Coronel Pedro Osório Square.

Among the most outstanding persons in this domain are the Passionist Priest Thomas Berry, the Orthodox Christian leader the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in Greece, Martin Palmer of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation in the United Kingdom, and Sulak Sivaraksa of the International Network of Engaged Buddhists in Thailand.

Ecumenical services are held each weekday and on Sundays during the academic year.

This council is now recognised as Ecumenical by the Catholic Church but rejected by the Eastern Churches.

In 1945 the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople recognised the autocephaly of the Bulgarian Church.

Deemed a heretic by the Ecumenical First Council of Nicaea of 325, Arius was later exonerated in 335 at the regional First Synod of Tyre, and then, after his death, pronounced a heretic again at the Ecumenical First Council of Constantinople of 381.

* 435 – Deposed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, is exiled by Roman Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.

When not celebrating Mass but still serving a liturgical function, such as the semiannual Urbi et Orbi papal blessing, some Papal Masses and some events at Ecumenical Councils, cardinal deacons can be recognized by the dalmatics they would don with the simple white mitre ( so called mitra simplex ).

That Council of Chalcedon is one of the first seven Ecumenical Councils accepted by Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and many Protestant Christian churches.

The Council is considered by the Roman Catholics, Eastern Catholic Churches, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Old Catholics, and various other Western Christian groups to have been the Fourth Ecumenical Council.

The Ecumenical Council of Nicea AD 325 was convened by Constantine under the presidency of Saint Hosius of Cordova and Pope Saint Alexander I of Alexandria to resolve the dispute and eventually led to the formulation of the Symbol of Faith, also known as the Nicene Creed.

Ecumenical cooperation and collaboration with other Christian Communions has long been practiced, by the Regions.

All of the original Seven Ecumenical Councils as recognized in whole or in part were called by an emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire and all were held in the Eastern Roman Empire.

To be considered Ecumenical Orthodox accept a Council that meets the condition that it was accepted by the whole church.

A case in point is the Third Ecumenical Council where two groups met as duly called for by the emperor, each claiming to be the legitimate council.

George Dragas, and the 1848 Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs ( which refers explicitly to the " Eighth Ecumenical Council " and was signed by the patriarchs of Constantinople, Jerusalem, Antioch, and Alexandria as well as the Holy Synods of the first three ), regard other synods beyond the Seventh Ecumenical Council as being ecumenical.

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