Many sacred beliefs of our Catholic faith can be traced to the 21 ecumenical councils held since the fourth century.

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I led a liturgy in Istanbul on Sunday, marking the 1,700th anniversary of Christianity's first ecumenical council. The first Council of Nicaea (located in modern ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has met with Metropolitan Emmanuel of Chalcedon, a representative of the Ecumenical Patriarch and Archbishop of Constantinople; Metropolitan Emmanuel is ...

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I leads the service of the Graveside Lamentation at the Patriarchal Church of St. George, in Istanbul, Turkey, Friday, April 18, 2025.

Bishop Lawrence M. Wooten and a committee of Ecumenical Leadership Council members, recently met with Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski for a private luncheon at the St. Louis Archdiocese in Shrewsbury.

The Second Vatican Council was an authoritative meeting of the Catholic Church's bishops, called an ecumenical council, held in Rome from 1962 to 1965. There have been 21 ecumenical councils in ...

But Anglicans and many Protestants regard only the first four councils—Nicaea (325), Constantinople (381), Ephesus (431) and Chalcedon (451)—as ecumenical; Orthodox churches accept the ...

Dr. Mott and 78 other churchmen, representing 130 denominations with 350,000,000 members in 21 nations, had gone to Utrecht to lay plans for a world council of churches.

The forthcoming Ecumenical Council, to be convened here by Pope John XXIII next October, will probably discuss ways of removing from the Jews the stigma of “slayers of God,” Augustin Cardinal ...

A prediction that the current session of the Ecumenical Council will approve a draft declaration on Jews was made today by Dr. Hans Kueng, Tuebingen University theologian and Ecumenical Council ...

The Rev. Norman Leach resigned Tuesday as executive director of the Lincoln Interfaith Council. Leach had not been in his office for several days, and as of Tuesday was a patient at BryanLGH ...