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ecumenical

[ek-yoo-men-i-kuhl, ee-kyoo-] / ˈɛk jʊˈmɛn ɪ kəl, ˈi kjʊ- /


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It’s meant to be an ecumenical message — just like the one Beshear hopes to deliver.

From Salon ● Sep. 30, 2026

In the first decades of Soviet communism, Russian Orthodoxy gave a great witness of martyrdom, even as its exiled thinkers enriched Christian theology and fostered ecumenical dialogue.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 6, 2026

Not every editor is quite as catholic with a little c, as ecumenical, as excited about such a range of writing as I am.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026

Then he travelled to Iznik for an ecumenical celebration marking 1,700 years since the First Council of Nicaea, one of the early Church's most important gatherings.

From Barron's ● Nov. 30, 2025

The minister, who took his ecumenical and—some felt—slightly impersonal remarks from Saint Paul’s sermon on Love from First Corinthians, talked for about half an hour.

From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt




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