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ecumenical movement

ecumenical movement noun: a movement among Protestant groups since the 1800s aimed at achieving universal Christian unity through international or interdenominational organizations. There are also Ecumenical Councils in the Roman Catholic church; since the Great Schism (1054), the Eastern churches have not been involved.

Noun

ecumenical movement

  1. a movement among Protestant groups since the 1800s aimed at achieving universal Christian unity through international or interdenominational organizations. There are also Ecumenical Councils in the Roman Catholic church; since the Great Schism (1054), the Eastern churches have not been involved.

Questions about ecumenical movement

What does ecumenical movement mean?
Ecumenical movement means a movement among Protestant groups since the 1800s aimed at achieving universal Christian unity through international or interdenominational organizations. There are also Ecumenical Councils in the Roman Catholic church; since the Great Schism (1054), the Eastern churches have not been involved.
What part of speech is ecumenical movement?
Ecumenical movement is a noun.

Words near ecumenical movement in the dictionary

  1. ecumenes
  2. ecumenic
  3. ecumenical
  4. ecumenical council
  5. ecumenical councils
  6. ecumenical movement
  7. Ecumenical Patriarch
  8. Ecumenical Patriarchs
  9. ecumenicalism
  10. ecumenicality
  11. ecumenically

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