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(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.
To motor around on a motorcycle; to ride.
As an adjective ecumenical
is (ecclesiastical) pertaining to the universal church, representing the entire christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious.As a noun motorcycle is
an open-seated motor-powered vehicle with two wheels.As a verb motorcycle is
to motor around on a motorcycle; to ride.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.