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ecumenical council
a solemn assembly in the Roman Catholic Church, convoked and presided over by the pope and composed of cardinals, bishops, and certain other prelates whose decrees, when confirmed by the pope, become binding. -
ecumenical movement
See under ecumenical (def 4). -
ecumenical patriarch
the patriarch of Constantinople, regarded as the highest dignitary of the Greek Orthodox Church. -
ecumenism
ecumenical doctrines and practices, especially as manifested in the ecumenical movement. -
patriarch
the male head of a family or tribal line. -
chalcedon
ancient Greek city on the Bosporus, opposite Byzantium: site of the 4th ecumenical council, a.d. 451