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ecumenical
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adjective
(= cosmopolitan, oecumenical, universal, worldwide)
of worldwide scope or applicability
an issue of cosmopolitan import
the shrewdest political and ecumenical comment of our time
— Christopher Morley
universal experience
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adjective
(= oecumenical)
concerned with promoting unity among churches or religions
ecumenical thinking
ecumenical activities
the ecumenical movement
patriarch
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noun
a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
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noun
any of the early biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race
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noun
the male head of family or tribe
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noun
title for the heads of the Eastern Orthodox Churches (in Istanbul and Alexandria and Moscow and Jerusalem)
Antony
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noun
Roman general under Julius Caesar in the Gallic wars; repudiated his wife for the Egyptian queen Cleopatra; they were defeated by Octavian at Actium (83-30 BC)
I
Pronoun
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The person who is speaking or writing
I am writing this, and you are reading it.
I
Noun
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The ninth letter or the alphabet; previous H, next J. I is a vowel.
I
Symbol
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A symbol meaning first, as in "George I" (which is said as "George the first").
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The symbol for iodine on the periodic table of elements.
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The symbol for electrical current.
I
Number
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This is the roman numeral for one (1). It may be written as I or i.
i
Noun
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The ninth letter or the alphabet; previous H, next J. I is a vowel.
of
Preposition
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Made using.
It is a house of cards.
Constantinople
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noun
the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic
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noun
the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
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noun
the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches
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noun
the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed
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noun
the largest city and former capital of Turkey; rebuilt on the site of ancient Byzantium by Constantine I in the fourth century; renamed Constantinople by Constantine who made it the capital of the Byzantine Empire; now the seat of the Eastern Orthodox Church