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some councils that others accept. The Church of the East (accused by others of adhering to Nestorianism) accepts as ecumenical the first two councils. Oriental...

seven of these councils as legitimate ecumenical councils. The Non-Chalcedonian Oriental Orthodox Churches accept only the first three, while the Non-Ephesian...

convoked by the metropolitan with consent of a majority of the suffragan bishops. Plenary and provincial councils are categorized as particular councils. A particular...

provincial councils involve the bishops of an ecclesiastical province. The Catholic Church recognizes as ecumenical 21 councils occurring over a period of some...

detailed acta of the council exist as they do for later councils, so the exact sequence of the council's debates is uncertain. Church councils at the time were...

The Councils of Carthage were church synods held during the 3rd, 4th, and 5th centuries in the city of Carthage in Africa. The most important of these...

the Church of the Councils because two councils of importance to the history of Early Christianity are assumed to have been held within. The church is...

Christianity, Church councils are formal meetings of bishops and representatives of several churches who are brought together to regulate points of doctrine...

the history of Christianity and later of the Roman Catholic Church, there have been several Councils of Aquileia. The Roman city of Aquileia at the head...

The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA, usually identified as the National Council of Churches (NCC), is the largest ecumenical body...

ecumenical councils. The principal purpose of the council was to re-assert the teachings of the ecumenical Council of Ephesus against the teachings of Eutyches...

The Councils of Narbonne were a series of provincial councils of the Catholic Church held in Narbonne, France. A council was supposedly held in Narbonne...

The Second Council of Constantinople is the fifth of the first seven ecumenical councils recognized by both the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Catholic...

the Councils and the Church (1539) is a treatise on ecclesiology written by Protestant reformer Martin Luther late in life. On the Councils and the Church...

of California Press. p. 279 pages. ISBN 0-520-24703-5. Tanner, Norman P. The Councils of the Church, ISBN 0-8245-1904-3 The Byzantine legacy in the Orthodox...

and the First Council of Constantinople in 381. The Church of the East accepted the teaching of these two councils, but ignored the 431 Council and those...

referred to unofficially as church courts. According to the church's General Handbook, the purposes of church membership councils are to: Help protect others;...

The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members...

The President of the Church is the highest office of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). It was the office held by Joseph Smith...

Halfond, Gregory I. (2009). "Appendix A: Frankish Councils, 511-768". Archaeology of Frankish Church Councils, AD 511-768. Brill. pp. 223–46. ISBN 978-90-04-17976-9...