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See also:OECUMENICAL (through the See also:Lat. from Gr. oiKOVµevI.KOS, universal, belonging to the whole inhabited See also:world, i] oiKovµtvf sc. y;7, aides, to dwell) , a word chiefly used in the sense of belonging to the universal See also:Christian See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
Church. It is thus specifically applied to the See also:general See also:councils of the See also:early church (see See also:COUNCIL). , In the See also:Roman Church a council is regarded as oecumenical when it has been summoned from the whole church under the See also:presidency of the See also:pope or his legates; the decrees confirmed by the pope are binding. The word has also been applied to assemblies of other religious bodies, such as the Oecumenical Methodist Conferences, which met for the first See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time in 1881. " Oecumenical " has also been the See also:title of the See also:patriarch of See also:Constantinople since the 6th See also:century (see ORTHODOX EASTERN CHURCH).
End of Article: OECUMENICAL (through the Lat. from Gr. oiKOVµevI.KOS, universal, belonging to the whole inhabited world, i] oiKovµtvf sc. y;7, aides, to dwell)
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