# REDIRECT Ecumenical council

In the year AD 381, Pope Timothy I of Alexandria presided over the second ecumenical council known as the Ecumenical Council of Constantinople, to judge Macedonious, who denied the Divinity of the Holy Spirit.

#* 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.

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.

It is their position that since the Seventh Ecumenical Council, there has been no synod or council of the same scope.

From this point of view, there has been no fully " pan-Orthodox " ( Ecumenical ) council since 787.

simple: Ecumenical council

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 >

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.

This council is referred to as Ecumenical in the Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs of 1848.

The Roman Catholic Church, however, recognizes the council of 869 as the Eighth Ecumenical Council and doesn't place the later council among Ecumenical Councils.

Image veneration was later reinstated by the Empress Regent Irene, under whom another council was held reversing the decisions of the previous iconoclast council and taking its title as Seventh Ecumenical Council.

A recent joint Lutheran-Orthodox statement made in the 7th Plenary of the Lutheran-Orthodox Joint Commission, on July 1993 in Helsinki, reaffirmed the Ecumenical council decisions on the nature of Christ and the veneration of images:

He tells the pope that he is suspect of heresy for accepting the Fifth Ecumenical Council ( the Second Council of Constantinople in 553 ), and exhorts him to summon a council and prove his orthodoxy.

The name of Sixtus is often connected with a great building boom in Rome: Santa Sabina on the Aventine Hill was dedicated during his pontificate and he built Santa Maria Maggiore, whose dedication to Mary the Mother of God reflected his acceptance of the Ecumenical council of Ephesus which closed in 431.

Most trinitarian Christian churches consider this an Ecumenical council.

* October 8 – November 1 – Council of Chalcedon, Ecumenical council of the Christian church.

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

Most trinitarian Christian churches consider this an Ecumenical council.

# REDIRECT Ecumenical council

At the Sixth Ecumenical Council Pope Honorius and Patriarch Sergius were declared heretics.

The third Ecumenical Council ( Council of Ephesus of 431 ) reaffirmed the original 325 version of the Nicene Creed and declared that " it is unlawful for any man to bring forward, or to write, or to compose a different ( – more accurately translated as used by the Council to mean “ different ,” “ contradictory ,” and not “ another ”) Faith as a rival to that established by the holy Fathers assembled with the Holy Ghost in Nicæa " ( i. e. the 325 creed ) This statement has been interpreted as a prohibition against changing this creed or composing others, but not all accept this interpretation.

Along with Pope Martin I, Maximus was vindicated by the Third Council of Constantinople ( the Sixth Ecumenical Council, 680 – 681 ), which declared that Christ possessed both a human and a divine will.

On, in the Bulgarian St. Stephen Church in Constantinople, which had been closed by the Ecumenical Patriarch's order, Antim I, along with other Bulgarian hierarchs who were then restricted from all priestly ministries, celebrated a liturgy, whereafter he declared autocephaly of the Bulgarian Church.

The subsequent Council in Constantinople, chaired by Ecumenical Patriarch Anthimus VI, in September 1872, wherein the Patriarchs of Alexandria, Antioch and Jerusalem ( the latter declined to sign the Council's decisions ) also participated, declared on September 18 ( September 30 ) the Bulgarian Exarchate schismatic and declared its adherents excommunicated.

Instead this new doctrine caused greater controversy, and was declared a heresy at the Sixth Ecumenical Council in 680-681.

In the 5th century, the Third Ecumenical Council in Ephesus declared Mary as Theotokos ( God-bearer ).

Since the First seven Ecumenical Councils, Christendom places emphasis on correct belief ( or orthodoxy ), focusing primarily on the New Covenant that the Christian Triune God made through Jesus Christ.

Ecumenical councils are not recognised by nontrinitarian churches such as The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( and other denominations within Mormonism ), Jehovah's Witnesses, and Unitarians.

" This is because the theology behind icons is closely tied to the Incarnational theology of the humanity and divinity of Jesus, so that attacks on icons typically have the effect of undermining or attacking the Incarnation of Jesus himself as elucidated in the Ecumenical Councils.

The Third Council of Constantinople, counted as the Sixth Ecumenical Council by the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches and other Christian groups, met in 680 / 681 and condemned monoenergism and monothelitism as heretical and defined Jesus Christ as having two energies and two wills ( divine and human ).

Monophysitism was condemned by the Council of Chalcedon in 451 ( the " Fourth Ecumenical Council "), which among other things adopted the Definition of Chalcedon ( often known as the " Chalcedonian Creed ") stating that Christ is the eternal Son of God " made known in two natures without confusion mixture, without change, without division, without separation, the difference of the natures being by no means removed because of the union, but the property of each nature being preserved and coalescing in one prosopon and one hupostasis -- not parted or divided into two prosopa, but one and the same Son, only-begotten, divine Word, the Lord Jesus Christ.

This distinction is spelled out in the dogmatic conclusions of the Seventh Ecumenical Council ( 787 ), which also decreed that iconoclasm ( forbidding icons and their veneration ) is a heresy that amounts to a denial of the incarnation of Jesus.

Jesus of Montreal won the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at the 1989 Cannes Film Festival and the Genie Award for Best Canadian Film of 1989.

* 431: The Ecumenical Council of Ephesus declares that Jesus existed both as Man and God simultaneously, clarifying his status in the Holy Trinity.

According to Ecumenical News International, Kuitert, after his own emeritation in 1989, and by now the most widely read theologian in the Netherlands, broke completely with Berkouwer and " Middle Orthodox " tradition ( the theological mainstream of the reformed church ) in his book, Jesus, the Inheritance of Christianity ( 1998 ).

It taught that Jesus was of lesser being than God, and was rebuked by Constantine's First Ecumenical Council of Nicea, which asserted that Jesus and God the Father were " consubstantial ", i. e. of the same divine being.

The issue of how to reconcile the claims of monotheism with the assertion of the divinity of Jesus of Nazareth was largely settled at the First Ecumenical Council held at Nicaea ( 325 ).

This is because iconography is rooted in the theology of the Incarnation ( Christ being the eikon of God ) which didn't change, though its subsequent clarification within the Church occurred over the period of the first seven Ecumenical Councils.

" " It is the first time, in fact, and saying it fills our souls with profound emotion, that an Ecumenical Council has presented such a vast synthesis of the Catholic doctrine regarding the place which the Blessed Mary occupies in the mystery of Christ and of the Church.

# Ecumenical in spirit, but not in structure: The church is united spiritually in Christ, but need not be united structurally

: the World Council of Churches ( WCC ) or any of its affiliates, such as the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. ( NCC ), the World Evangelical Fellowship ( WEF ) or any of its affiliates, such as the National Association of Evangelicals ( NAE ), the modern Charismatic Movement, or the Ecumenical Movement ...

That dialogue was jointly sponsored by the USCCB Committee on Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs, the Christian Reformed Church in North America, the Presbyterian Church-USA, the Reformed Church in America and the United Church of Christ.

Ecumenical discussions with a view to a unified church was initiated by the Australian Churches of Christ Mission, Australian Methodist Church, the Wesleyan Methodist Church, the Methodist Episcopal Church and United Church of Northern India during a round table meeting in Lucknow in 1929.

* The Unknown Christ Of Hinduism: Towards An Ecumenical Christophany ( 1981 Maryknoll, N. Y .: Orbis Books.