Ecumenical vs Cosmopolitan - What's the difference?
ecumenical | cosmopolitan |
(ecclesiastical) Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious.
* 1999 , Dr Martyn Percy, The Guardian , 5 Jun 1999:
* 2009 , (Diarmaid MacCulloch), A History of Christianity , Penguin 2010, p. 215:
* 2010 , ‘Britain's ancient shame in Slovenia’, The Economist , 30 Oct 2010:
General, universal, worldwide.
all-inclusive; affecting the whole world
(of a place, or, institution) composed of people from all over the world
(of a person) at ease in any part of the world
(biology, ecology) growing in many parts of the world; widely distributed
a cosmopolitan person; a cosmopolite
a cocktail containing vodka, triple sec, lime juice and cranberry juice
As adjectives the difference between ecumenical and cosmopolitan
is that ecumenical is (ecclesiastical) pertaining to the universal church, representing the entire christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious while cosmopolitan is all-inclusive; affecting the whole world.As a noun cosmopolitan is
a cosmopolitan person; a cosmopolite.ecumenical
English
Alternative forms
* * oecumenicalAdjective
(-)- Within Europe, the church's ecumenical partnerships have demonstrated that ecclesial unity may have political resonances.
- Nicaea has always been regarded as one of the milestones in the history of the Church, and reckoned as the first council to be styled ‘general’ or ‘oecumenical ’.
- Rather touchingly, an ecumenical mass of reparation for the victims of the massacres was held on October 29, in the very English village of Great Missenden in Buckinghamshire. The service was led by the Catholic bishop of Northampton, with Archbishop Metropolitan Stres from Ljubljana and the Anglican bishop of Buckingham.