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Oecumenical

adjective
1.
Concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions.  Synonyms: ecumenic, ecumenical, oecumenic.  "Ecumenical activities" , "The ecumenical movement"
2.
Of worldwide scope or applicability.  Synonyms: cosmopolitan, ecumenical, general, universal, world-wide, worldwide.  "The shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time" , "Universal experience"





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"Oecumenical" Quotes from Famous Books



... that number have been present in the church several times within modern memory; but it is thought that the building would hold eighty thousand—as many as could be seated on the tiers in the Colosseum. Such a concourse was there at the opening of the Oecumenical Council in December, 1869, and at the jubilees celebrated by Leo the Thirteenth; and on all those occasions there was plenty of room in the aisles, besides the broad spaces which were required for the ...
— Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 - Studies from the Chronicles of Rome • Francis Marion Crawford


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