oecumenical
Britishadjective
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The council of Pisa in 1409: it is not reverenced as an oecumenical one; it nevertheless, in deposing.
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He attended the second oecumenical council held at Constantinople in 381, where he was received with grateful acclamations for his sufferings in defence of orthodoxy.
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The capture of Plevna by the Russians brought about the fall of the “oecumenical” ministry, and Koumoundouros and Delyannes, who succeeded to power, ordered the invasion of Thessaly.
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About 1103 he wrote or inspired a series of tracts which defended the king’s prerogative and attacked the oecumenical pretensions of the papacy with great freedom of language.
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It is neither that of the city, nor that of the country alone—neither national, oecumenical, nor provincial, nor a mixture of all.
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