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ecuménico
Pertaining to the universal Church, representing the entire Christian world; interdenominational; sometimes by extension, interreligious.
Nicaea has always been regarded as one of the milestones in the history of the Church, and reckoned as the first council to be styled ‘general’ or ‘oecumenical’.
Within Europe, the church's ecumenical partnerships have demonstrated that ecclesial unity may have political resonances.
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