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 1     I,Intro |  Constantinople is known as the .Ecumenical. (or universal) Patriarch,
 2     I, 2    |         there are seven holy and Ecumenical Councils, and these are
 3     I, 2    |       mansion, the Catholic ~and Ecumenical Church. (John II, Metropolitan
 4     I, 2,1  |    summoned the first General or Ecumenical Council of the Christian ~
 5     I, 2,2  |       was taken up by the second Ecumenical Council, held at Constantin-~
 6     I, 2,2  |        Constantinople. The fifth Ecumenical Council (553) reinterpreted
 7     I, 2,2  |         single person. The sixth Ecumenical ~Council (680-681) condemned
 8     I, 2,3  |         by the seventh and last ~Ecumenical Council (787), which met (
 9     I, 2,3  |       the meeting of the seventh Ecumenical Council, the ~Triumph of
10     I, 3,1  |        decisions of the seventh ~Ecumenical Council. It is true that
11     I, 3,1  |   accepted the decisions ~of the Ecumenical Councils, did not play a
12     I, 3,1  |       most honorable seat ~at an Ecumenical Council. But she has separated
13     I, 3,1  |          two reasons. First, the Ecumenical Councils specifically forbade
14     I, 3,1  |   nothing short of an-~ 26~other Ecumenical Council is competent to
15     I, 3,2  |        in the west as the eighth Ecumenical ~Council, opened with the
16     I, 3,3  |           although local and not Ecumenical, yet possess a doctrinal
17     I, 3,3  |          century and the seventh Ecumenical Council. ~ Among the contemporaries
18     I, 5,1  |        was certainly true of the Ecumenical Patri-~archate under the
19     I, 5,1  |       passed directly under the ~Ecumenical Patriarch.s control. But
20     I, 5,2  |        the troubled state of the Ecumenical Patriarchate under the Ottomans.
21     I, 5,2  |       problems which neither the Ecumenical Councils ~nor the Church
22     I, 7,2  |         with interna-~tional and ecumenical contacts, anxious to appear
23     I, 7,6  |      island of Patmos (under the Ecumenical Patriarch). In Meteora ~
24     I, 7,9  |       Tolleshunt Knights, Essex (Ecumenical Patriarchate), founded by
25     I, 7,9  |         great gatherings of the .Ecumenical Movement,. the Orthodox
26     I, 7,9  |        the ~Orthodox Church, the Ecumenical Patriarch. After the First
27     I, 7,9  |     government. ~Around 1950 the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras revived
28    II, 0,11 |         means the decrees of the Ecumenical Councils and the writings
29    II, 0,11 |     doctrinal definitions of the Ecumenical~Councils: these things the
30    II, 0,11 |       Perhaps in our own day new Ecumenical Councils will meet, and
31    II, 0,12 |        Word of God.~2. The Seven Ecumenical Councils: The Creed~The
32    II, 0,12 |      doctrinal definitions of an Ecumenical Council are infallible.
33    II, 0,12 |        most important of all the Ecumenical statements of faith is the
34    II, 0,12 |        not been proclaimed by an Ecumenical Council. Orthodox honour
35    II, 0,12 |       not cease with the Seventh~Ecumenical Council. Since 787 there
36    II, 0,12 |        then they~come to acquire Ecumenical authority (i.e. a universal
37    II, 0,12 |       doctrinal statements of an Ecumenical Council). The doctrinal
38    II, 0,12 |        doctrinal decisions of an Ecumenical Council~cannot be revised
39    II, 0,12 |      Christian unity and on~the ‘Ecumenical Movement’ (1920, 1952)~These
40    II, 0,12 |       doctrinal definitions, the Ecumenical Councils drew up Canons,
41    II, 2,1  |    college of bishops and of the Ecumenical~Council; where Rome stresses
42    II, 2,1  |         Church Together?’ in~the Ecumenical Review, vol. 12 (1960),
43    II, 2,2  |         convene and hold another Ecumenical Council, equal in authority
44    II, 2,2  |        expressed chiefly through Ecumenical Councils. But before we~
45    II, 2,2  |  understand what makes a Council Ecumenical, we must consider the place
46    II, 2,3  |     considering~the nature of an Ecumenical Council. The laity are guardians
47    II, 2,3  | particular~gathering is truly an Ecumenical Council and therefore that
48    II, 2,3  |       have considered themselves ecumenical and have claimed to speak
49    II, 2,3  |      outward appearance from the Ecumenical Councils. What, then, is
50    II, 2,3  | determining whether a council is ecumenical?~This is a more difficult
51    II, 2,3  |          their~Church accepts as ecumenical, but precisely what it is
52    II, 2,3  |          is that makes a council ecumenical is not so~clear. There are,
53    II, 2,3  |        know whether a council is ecumenical, Khomiakov and his~school
54    II, 2,3  |     council cannot be~considered ecumenical unless its decrees are accepted
55    II, 2,3  |      Hieria,~and the rest, while ecumenical in outward appearance, are
56    II, 2,3  |        Church, p. 89).~At a true Ecumenical Council the bishops recognize
57    II, 2,3  |   ecumenicity~of a council: ‘An ‘Ecumenical’ Council is such, not because
58    II, 2,3  |      witness to the faith~of the Ecumenical Church’ (Metropolitan Seraphim,
59    II, 2,3  |         not enough to summon an ‘Ecumenical~Council’ ... it is also
60    II, 2,4  |     assigned to her by the third Ecumenical Council (Ephesus, 431),
61    II, 2,4  |          the~second by the fifth Ecumenical Council (Constantinople,
62    II, 3,2  |     kneel. Canon 20 of the first ecumenical Council forbids all kneeling
63    II, 5,1  |         in the~west. In 1923 the Ecumenical Patriarch convened an ‘Inter-Orthodox
64    II, 5,1  |     Easter depended on Canons~of ecumenical authority, they could only
65    II, 6    |      schism between Rome and the Ecumenical~59~Church. The greatest
66    II, 6,1  |      side precludes any~serious ‘ecumenical dialogue’ with the Orthodox,
67    II, 6,1  |        for Orthodox in all their ecumenical relations. It is~unity in
68    II, 6,2  |      December 1959). Of all the~‘ecumenical’ contacts of Orthodoxy,
69    II, 6,2  |   reckons the Vatican Council as ecumenical and so is bound to regard
70    II, 6,2  |        the Fathers and the seven Ecumenical Councils: the Orthodox claimed
71    II, 6,2  |    provisional in character.~The Ecumenical Patriarch, for example,
72    II, 6,2  | Orthodoxy, by H. A. Hodges. ‘The ecumenical~problem,’ Professor Hodges
73    II, 6,2  |     Council of Churches and the ‘Ecumenical Movement.’ One party holds~
74    II, 6,2  |        full participation in the Ecumenical Movement compromises~the
75    II, 6,2  |     children to take part in the Ecumenical Movement, which rests on
76    II, 6,2  |    Orthodox can take~part in the Ecumenical Movement without endangering
77    II, 6,2  |         major conferences of the Ecumenical Movement, others have~done
78    II, 6,2  |        full participation in~the Ecumenical Movement. In January 1920
79    II, 6,2  |        later developments in the Ecumenical~Movement. But while Constantinople
80    II, 6,2  |        bluntly: ‘The aims of the Ecumenical Movement ... in its present
81    II, 6,2  |       more effective part in~the Ecumenical Movement than they have
82    II, 6,2  |      cardinal importance for the Ecumenical Movement: it~is mainly the
83    II, 6,2  |        and nothing more. But the Ecumenical Movement in~turn is important
84    II, 6,3  |      recover. This, then, is the ecumenical role of Orthodoxy: to question
85    II, 7,11 |          Neill, A History of the Ecumenical Movement, 2nd ed., London,