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oecumenical

oecumenical is the alternative spelling of ecumenical.

Meaning of ecumenical

Adjective

ecumenical (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious.
    • [William] Wake’s immense correspondence on behalf of Christian unity has been analysed fully, if not definitively, by Norman Sykes, and related to the situations in France, Switzerland, and Germany, but we may adventure a comment upon it without recapitulating an intricate, and like ecumenical...1986, [Ernest] Gordon Rupp, “Conversations”, in Religion in England 1688–1791 (Oxford History of the Christian Church), Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, →ISBN, part I (‘Names and Sects and...
  2. (rare) General; universal; catholic; worldwide.
    Synonyms:
    universal, worldwide

Words formed from oecumenical

Phrases with oecumenical

Questions about oecumenical

What is oecumenical the alternative spelling of?
Oecumenical is the alternative spelling of ecumenical.

Words near oecumenical in the dictionary

  1. OECs
  2. OECTA
  3. oecumene
  4. oecumenes
  5. oecumenic
  6. oecumenical
  7. oecumenical council
  8. oecumenical councils
  9. oecumenicalism
  10. oecumenicism
  11. oecumenicity

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