The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the Catholic Ecumenical Councils. An ecumenical council is a conference of ecclesiastical...

In the history of Christianity, the first seven ecumenical councils include the following: the First Council of Nicaea in 325, the First Council of Constantinople...

to ecumenical Councils, there are "particular Councils". Current Canon Law recognizes two kinds of particular Councils: plenary councils involve the bishops...

continuations of earlier gnostic groups. Christianity portal Christian heresy Outline of Christianity Outline of Catholicism Outline of the Catholic ecumenical councils...

four councils, but rejected the decisions of the fourth and did not attend any subsequent ecumenical councils. Acceptance of councils as ecumenical and...

context of the larger ecumenical councils organised with the support of the Roman Emperor. The aim of these councils was to clarify matters of Christian...

Peter to present day. Outline of the Catholic ecumenical councils – Catholic Ecumenical Councils include 21 councils over a period of 1700 years. While definitions...

ecumenical councils. The principal purpose of the council was to re-assert the teachings of the ecumenical Council of Ephesus against the teachings of Eutyches...

The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council or Vatican II, was the 21st and most recent ecumenical council...

councils to adopt creeds and canons. This council is generally considered the beginning of the period of the first seven ecumenical councils in the history...

[citation needed] Church Fathers First seven ecumenical councils State church of the Roman Empire World Encyclopaedia of Interfaith Studies: World religions....

the first ecumenical councils as law "because they are true dogmata" of God. Ecumenical Councils issue dogmas. Many dogmas – especially from the early Church...

include the Assyrian Church of the East, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodox Church (including the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople), the Oriental...

Outline of the Catholic ecumenical councils – When problems or issues arise for the Catholic Church, she gathers her bishops to an ecumenical council...

The Second Council of Lyon was the fourteenth ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church, convoked on 31 March 1272 and convened in Lyon, Kingdom...

dogmatic decrees of the seven ecumenical councils, and the teaching of the Church Fathers. The church teaches that it is the one, holy, catholic and apostolic...

The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople (Greek: Οἰκουμενικὸν Πατριαρχεῖον Κωνσταντινουπόλεως, romanized: Oikoumenikón Patriarkhíon Konstantinoupóleos...

theological views existed before the fourth century and these spurred the ecumenical councils which eventually developed the Nicene Creed, and various non-Nicene...

The terms Old Catholic Church, Old Catholics, Old-Catholic churches, or Old Catholic movement, designate "any of the groups of Western Christians who believe...

the call to the unity. London [u.a.]: Burns & Oates. ISBN 978-0-86012379-8. Kelly, Joseph F. (2009). The ecumenical councils of the Catholic Church : a...

to be called ecumenical, meaning throughout the world (as the world was thought of in Western terms). Today, Council in Roman Catholic canon law typically...

translate the Bible into Slavonic. 869: Fourth Ecumenical Council of Constantinople condemns Photius. This council and succeeding general councils are denied...

the first three Ecumenical Councils, which form our common heritage. In relation to the four later Councils of the Orthodox Church, the Orthodox state...

English versions of the Bible that correspond to the description above and canon law: In 2013, The Message - Catholic / Ecumenical Edition was also published...

nature of the sacraments were defined by several ecumenical councils, most recently the Council of Trent. These are Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist...

Schaff's Seven Ecumenical Councils: First Nicaea: Canon VII: "It is very hard to determine just what was the 'precedence' granted to the Bishop of Ælia, nor...

points of controversy in ecumenical relations with the Eastern Orthodox and other non-Catholic churches. The five historic liturgical traditions of Eastern...

the head of each to the other. The efforts of the ecumenical patriarchs towards reconciliation with the Catholic Church have often been the target of...

referring specifically to the Catholic Church and often, further, the Roman Catholic Church, used especially in ecumenical contexts and in countries where...

This ecumenical creed is today recited in the liturgies of the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Roman Catholic Church (both Latin and Eastern Rites), the Oriental...