(a.) General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.
Example Sentences:
(1) We are extremely ecumenical in our approach to elected officials."
(2) This is an ecumenical insurrection where full-time activists and union leaders worried about jobs are joined by retirees and local mothers.
(3) Henry Barnes The clergy may not be entirely trustworthy This may not be big news to cinemagoers – sneering at religious types goes all the way back to DW Griffith's Intolerance – but Cannes boasts an impressively ecumenical approach.
(4) Members of a Roman Catholic ecumenical community are to take up residence in Lambeth palace next year, breaking five centuries of Anglican tradition and heralding a further rapprochement between the churches of England and Rome.
(5) Ecumenical pressure group Church Action on Poverty (CAP) warned that there was still a "huge gap between those in poverty and those in the rest of society."
(6) Yes, it has been a long ecumenical winter, she says, but sometimes the personalities of those at the top are sufficient to bring about a thaw: "A Christian must always hope – that's part of the job description, really – and spring always follows winter."
(7) Williams, who led the ecumenical service, said a paralysing sense of fear and selfishness would deny future generations a "stable, productive and balanced world to live in" and instead give them a world of "utterly chaotic and disruptive change, of devastation and desertification, of biological impoverishment and degradation."
(8) The bill faces an unprecedented breadth of opposition, encompassing everyone from the Taxpayers' Alliance and Oxfam to the Women's Institute and the Ecumenical Advocacy Alliance.
(9) The Greek Orthodox Church, which has representatives across the Middle East, has also weighed in, and the Greece's prime minister, Antonis Samaras, has appealed for help to Istanbul-based ecumenical patriarch, Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox faithful.
(10) Later on Saturday, Bartholomew I, with whom the pope shares close personal ties, is to receive Francis at the ecumenical patriarchate.
(11) Abbott and Poroshenko attended an ecumenical church service on Thursday to honour the nearly 300 victims of the MH17 disaster, 38 of whom were Australian.
(12) The Rev Canon Dr Judith Maltby, chaplain of Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and a reader in church history at the university, said that while many lay and clerical members of both churches got on well, the Roman Catholic and Anglican hierarchies were living through an "ecumenical winter".
(13) Although neither the Vatican nor Lambeth Palace has provided many details of the visit, Rome has stressed its importance as an ecumenical event and highlighted the two men's shared commitment to tackling poverty.
(14) It has not hurt that Welby's personal spiritual director is a Benedictine monk; nor that the archbishop recently signalled a further rapprochement by inviting members of a Roman Catholic ecumenical community to take up residence in Lambeth Palace .
(15) Bartholomew attended Francis’s investiture last year, the first ecumenical patriarch to attend such a ceremony in Rome since the two churches split almost 1,000 years ago.
(16) Such foes were baffled by the boyish camaraderie of old Fleet Street, not to say its tradition of ecumenical friendship: before he had a London flat of his own, Waugh used to stay with his great friend Paul Foot.
(17) From the Vatican’s standpoint, another important aspect of the visit will be the opportunity to consolidate the papacy’s good relations with the ecumenical patriarch, Bartholomew I, the pre-eminent spiritual leader of the world’s 300 million Orthodox Christians.
(18) Politicians gathered for an ecumenical service in the memorial church on Tuesday evening.
(19) "There is a need to create an ecumenical alliance against poverty, inequalities, against the logic that markets and profits are above people."
(20) But more than being a proselytist, this seems to be a pope that works toward unity, who adopts a new ecumenism, who embraces the Pentecostals – as he did as a cardinal in Argentina.