It's since taken on a more ecumenical, academically focused approach.
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Next Father Pavel arrived from Krasnoarmiisk, the local ecumenical seat.
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Under him the carol service became more ecumenical and open.
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Why did this idea never become ecumenical enough to accommodate Muslims?
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It would be hard to overstate how rare this ecumenical unanimity is.
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It now calls itself an ecumenical Christian university with no denominational ties.
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Moscow forbids its clerics to officiate with those under the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
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This was demonstrably the case at the ecumenical settlement of Dura-Europos.
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It is ecumenical, but about 90 percent of its members are Catholic.
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The alternative, of course, is an ecumenical cynicism toward everyone and everything.
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Many Gülenists—perhaps most of them—practice their leader's ecumenical ideas earnestly.
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The Russian church has long sought greater influence over the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul.
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Against black walls, four spare displays capture Chareau's ecumenical love of tradition and experimentation.
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Ukraine's president, Petro Poroshenko, greeted the Ecumenical Patriarchate's announcement of its decision on Oct.
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"Ecumenical" in Deggendorf means "Catholic and Protestant," explained the school principal, Heinz-Peter Meidinger.
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They also serve an ecumenical range of clients, including some whom the Americans distrust.
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But one of the most striking things about Jacobin is how ideologically ecumenical it is.
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The kind of ecumenical activism that Garza espouses has deep roots in the Bay Area.
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However ecumenical his behaviour, it still seems unlikely that Mr Sudirman will prevail in Central Java.
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James David, the bishop of the Ecumenical Catholic Diocese of New England, performed the ceremony. Mrs.
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The Vatican "lends us support in the ecumenical dialogue without antagonizing other Orthodox churches," he added.
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Patriarch Kirill of Moscow called the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew's support for an independent Ukrainian church "shameless".
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More formal or sweeping codifications of change in interpretation are generally done collectively, through ecumenical councils.
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His fanatical fanbase was and remains as ecumenical as his great rival Michael Jackson's, and more discerning.
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Maybe it was the rumblings of social justice reverberating from the ecumenical Vatican II council in Rome.
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On February 25th, however, the main occupants—the Catholics, Greek Orthodox and Armenians—showed rare ecumenical unity.
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To refute the cross's supposedly ecumenical appeal, they also drew upon darker aspects of the state's history.
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"We see that Moscow's henchmen are dropping "clear hints" to intimidate representatives of Ecumenical Patriarch," Yevstraty said.
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From 1968 to 1971, he directed a national committee of Catholic bishops on ecumenical and interreligious affairs.
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It turns out there is this hunger for people talking about spirituality from a really ecumenical position.
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Those changes under Vatican II included an increased focus on ecumenical relations, and on Catholic-Jewish relations.
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Leslie Bassett, a Pulitzer Prize-winning composer known for his lush sonorities and ecumenical instrumentation, died on Feb.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. as a radical, ecumenical, antiwar, pro-immigrant and scholarly champion of the poor.
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But in the coming weeks, the Ecumenical Patriarch's profile in the Western and Anglophone world will certainly rise.
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"The people who planned [the event] knew you cannot have an ecumenical meeting and have communion," notes Jordon.
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But the ecumenical patriarch, Bartholomew, considered first among equals in the church hierarchy, also has much at stake.
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She was also an associate dean at the Pacific School of Religion, an ecumenical seminary in Berkeley, Calif.
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It wasn't until 2004 when I found the Ecumenical Catholic Communion that I could be a priest again.
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We often have ecumenical prayers at the beginning of events that aren't an endorsement of any particular faith.
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The council is being organized by his rival, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christianity.
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A similar message was sent by Orthodox Christianity's Ecumenical Patriarch, whom Francis credits for many of his green ideas.
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One commentator said Francis' view was perhaps "blurred by ecumenical correctness" in the hopes of a meeting with Kirill.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, who is the leader of Orthodox Christians, will attend the ceremony and represent the Pope.
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Chicago City Councilman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa—one of DSA's few elected officials—advised an ecumenical approach to party politics.
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A fellow organization, Faith and Light, which operates as an ecumenical Christian organization, operates 1,500 communities in 83 countries.
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I'm still functioning as a priest because I was accepted by the founding bishop of this Ecumenical Catholic Communion.
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But historians say that Allahabad itself rose around a fort built by the ecumenical emperor Akbar in the 16th century.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew — dubbed the "Green Patriarch" for his support for environmental causes — inaugurated the two-day conference on Wednesday.
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Earlier, the Ecumenical Patriarchate said in a statement that "the Holy and Sacred Synod drafted the Ukrainian Church's Constitutional Charter".
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Mary Beth Fisk, chief executive of the San Antonio-based Ecumenical Center, has brought about 20 counselors to Sutherland Springs.
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However, Bartholomew's full title, laden with history, is His All-Holiness, Bartholomew, Archbishop of Constantinople-New Rome and Ecumenical Patriarch.
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The Ecumenical Patriarchate is asserting its ancient right to grant autonomy to churches and to judge issues of church law.
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On Thursday, the two men went to the Vatican for an exceptional two-day ecumenical retreat inside the pope's residence.
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Fellowship Southwest, an ecumenical faith organization, organized the protest to pray for the families separated by the Trump administration's policies.
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An ecumenical cellist and vocalist, Ms. Hughes ranges deftly into chamber music, indie rock, R&B and avant-garde improvising.
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He would surrender only after attending an ecumenical service in honor of the birthday of his deceased wife, Marisa Letícia.
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The scholar Ruth HaCohen speculates that Bach's "ecumenical, inclusive dialogue" opened a space in which Jewish listeners could find refuge.
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On September 7th the Ecumenical Patriarch took the first steps towards granting the wishes of Mr Poroshenko and his fellow legislators.
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The Western part of the menu perplexed me with its ecumenical embrace of crab-cake sandwiches and pineapple-sherbet smoothies alike.
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Witnessing facts on the ground revealed courageous acts of ecumenical alliance and revitalization, often with international NGOs and faith-based entities.
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This is the goal of our ecumenical endeavors, which we wish to advance, also by renewing our commitment to theological dialogue.
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Losing the Church of Russia, and any that might follow its lead, would be a serious blow to the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
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Of the two main poles of authority in the Orthodox world, the Ecumenical Patriarchate is regarded as the more Western-oriented.
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Mr. Thomas said Gina Belafonte, the daughter of the actor and activist Harry Belafonte, came with a group of ecumenical leaders.
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But if Wright's reader is a candidate seeking entrance into a rarified order, it is an ecumenical one, diasporic in scope.
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She met her husband, who was earning his master's in public health at Harvard, at a worldwide ecumenical conference in Oslo.
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"The Orthodox Church had 14 independent churches, and today it has 15," said Nikolas Papachristou, a spokesman for the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
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Kaine's rise to the Vice-Presidential nomination owes much to his style of ecumenical politics, a blend of nonconformity and calculation.
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He will also meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual head of Orthodox Christians worldwide, and representatives of the Greek community in Istanbul.
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Representatives of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, boosted Poroshenko's hopes of securing approval for an autocephalous church.
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It is a sign of the new times that, these days, it is busy making ecumenical contacts with Christians, Jews and others.
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" Rigoberto Ulloa, director of the Ecumenical Observatory of Human Rights, supported the call, saying the need for such an investigation was "urgent.
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For that to happen, Ukraine needs the formal backing of the Ecumenical Patriarch in Turkey, the global spiritual head of Orthodox Christians.
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On Thursday, Ibrahim Abdeslam was buried in an unmarked grave in an ecumenical cemetery in Brussels, nearly 18 weeks after his death.
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Russia has revived a pre-revolutionary effort to dilute the authority of the ecumenical patriarch, according to church officials and other experts.
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It's an ecumenical mix of people for this Black Madonna, who is happy to bring her liberation theology to the dance floor.
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Since the early 1960s, the bassist Buster Williams has positioned himself comfortably along the divide between swinging hard bop and ecumenical fusion.
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On Friday, Pope Francis seemed to put on different hats during the day's three stops, reflecting his interreligious, ecumenical and political roles.
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The island-bound English, though, have long prized ecumenical, brightly colored cheekiness — not merely in their conversation but also in their surroundings.
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They came to see a single document called a tomos, issued a few days before by the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew.
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The Ecumenical Patriarch, currently Bartholomew, also holds the title of Archbishop of Constantinople, the old Greek name for Istanbul, Turkey's largest city.
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On Saturday, Pope Francis celebrated Mass in Gyumri, visited the Armenian Genocide memorial complex at Tsitsernakaberd and delivered an ecumenical prayer for peace.
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The decree, or Tomos, will be handed to Epifaniy at a ceremony on Sunday, completing the process of recognition by the Ecumenical Patriarchate.
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But on January 5th, in announcing executive actions to restrict gun access that bypass the GOP-held Congress completely, he was less ecumenical.
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the Greek Orthodox Church, would also be present, the official said.
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Similarly, three Burlington County schools were converted into apartment buildings for the elderly in the past few years by an ecumenical housing organization.
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Arguably, though, Fairway has also fallen victim to a culture of increasingly tiered consumer experiences, for which it remains almost too quaintly ecumenical.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew will soon announce when the Ukrainian clergy is to meet to pick the head of the new church, Poroshenko added.
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Why didn't anyone propose a "Judeo-Christian-Islamic" tradition—or, to save a few syllables, an "Abrahamic" brand of the ecumenical faith covenant?
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But when it comes to how the Arena's ecumenical approach might benefit the Democrats over the long term, he is still not sure.
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Perhaps most important, this gathering also celebrates unusually ecumenical, eyes-first ways of looking — the search for convincing ratios of innovation to authenticity.
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Furthermore, the Ecumenical Patriarchate's dialogue with other faiths, including the Roman Catholic Church, is deeply unpopular with hard-line Orthodox priests and monks.
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Young Anglicans from across Africa have united with ecumenical neighbors to study local effects of climate change and work on developing local solutions.
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The protests have veered from furious attacks on government property to peaceful, even ecumenical, pleas for the government to respond to citizens' needs.
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Instead of promoting polarization as a mainstream tactic, we need the civic equivalent of ecumenical outreach to recover a sense of shared mission.
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He was embraced at an ecumenical church service by the primate of the Church of Sweden, Archbishop Antje Jackelen, who is a woman.
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Yet even before he became a candidate, Mr. Trump seemed skeptical that a new era of ecumenical progress might be seeping into American politics.
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In 16863 the Ecumenical Patriarch blessed the establishment of an independent Polish Orthodox church, using arguments predicated on his continuing responsibility for neighbouring Ukraine.
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Stalwarts of the MHA, an ecumenical outfit with the motto "One People, All Colours", had always been aware of the family tree's black branches.
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Francis has made ecumenical outreach a priority and in February became the first pope to meet with the patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church.
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In 2014, Pope Francis met the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, at the Aedicule, to promote unity.
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In bonding through music, these young Catholics and Protestants were engaging in an ecumenical dialogue that presaged movements such as the Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
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In 22010, the Christian population of the Holy Land was 22.8 percent; it's now 24.5 percent, according to the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation.
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Within the all-beef subset, we were ecumenical, including all the major national brands as well as some organic, kosher and small-batch outliers.
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Ian Alteveer, a curator of modern and contemporary art, said the variety of works in Mr. Hollein's office reflect the new director's ecumenical tastes.
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Susan S. Ringler, a friend of the bride's family who was ordained by both the Ecumenical Catholic Communion and the New Seminary, officiated. Mrs.
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This means Episcopal leaders are unable to represent the Anglican faith in ecumenical settings, and will not be allowed to participate in doctrinal decisions.
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Ukraine in October secured approval to set up an independent church from the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, the global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians.
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Francis already has ties to other Orthodox leaders, especially with Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, considered the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians.
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More than five centuries would pass before Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras of Constantinople met in 1964 and later lifted the mutual excommunications.
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Francis pitched for greater togetherness at an ecumenical prayer service hosted by the World Council of Churches, which is marking its 70th anniversary this year.
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Opinion We owe it to Dr. King to commemorate the man in full: a radical, ecumenical, antiwar, pro-immigrant and scholarly champion of the poor.
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The Patriarchate of Moscow abruptly severed relations with the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, after he recognised the existence of an independent Ukrainian church.
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They prefer to agitatedly discuss the logistics of the dying pork business in Turkey, their views on the Ecumenical Patriarchate, their community, and each other.
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But "Judeo-Christian" carries a nicer, more tolerant tone—indeed, the idea of ecumenical tolerance spurred its most vibrant coinage among liberals in postwar America.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, who is among the world's top Eastern Orthodox Christian leaders, was one of the figures targeted, according to the news service.
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The bishops&apos conference approved it in part as a gesture of ecumenical outreach to Protestants in a country where mixed-faith marriages are common.
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Ecumenical means "universal," and in that role he is considered "first among equals," with the right to create new, full-fledged branches of the church.
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Also, the break in relations between Moscow and the Ecumenical Patriarchate could weaken the latter if other Orthodox churches follow Russia in rejecting Constantinople's primacy.
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Many monks in northern Greece's self-governing monastic community of Mount Athos — regarded as the jewel in the Ecumenical Patriarchate's crown — have pro-Russian tendencies.
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"No one is representing the people who are being hit the hardest by these cuts," said Melissa Newbury, director of the Bangor Ecumenical Food Cupboard.
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The humanitarian arm of the Patriarchate, the Department of Ecumenical Relationships and Development (DERD) operates as the largest local NGO inside Syria, independent of the government.
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The project's founder, Savelia Curniski, described her experiences at a conference on trafficking organised in Istanbul last month by the Ecumenical Patriarchate, Orthodox Christianity's senior authority.
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"Zimbabwe is clearly a hurting, angry and traumatized nation," Bishop Ambrose Moyo, who heads the Ecumenical Church Leaders Forum, said during a prayer meeting with politicians.
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She said that the peace effort in Northern Ireland hinged on incredibly tough, person-to-person groundwork carried out by dozens of organizations and ecumenical groups.
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Supporters of the move said that at a time of polarising tension in the Orthodox world, the Ecumenical Patriarchate needed to rally and streamline its forces.
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Greater Cleveland Congregations, an ecumenical group of churches and synagogues affiliated with the Industrial Areas Foundation, perhaps the nation's finest organizing group, took to the streets.
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The administration of George W. Bush was trying to use an evangelical-Catholic alliance to ground the G.O.P. in an ecumenical and morally serious conservative religiosity.
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In ecumenical fashion, he went after Mafia dons, Wall Street moguls and a parade of corrupt officials, some of whom worked for Mayor Edward I. Koch.
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This Claymation video highlights the power of her voice and the retro-R&B savvy of the Dap-Kings band; it also has an ecumenical twist.
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Francis had already met with other Orthodox leaders, including Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who is considered the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians.
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Analysts say Francis, who has made deepening ecumenical ties a centerpiece of his papacy, was able to achieve a meeting because of a complex confluence of factors.
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The Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, Bartholomew I, signed the "Tomos" in Istanbul in front of clerics and Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko, forming the Orthodox Church of Ukraine.
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In Riga, Francis will pay tribute to Latvia's independence heroes at the Monument to Freedom and preside over at an ecumenical service at the city's Lutheran cathedral.
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Ukraine in October secured approval to set up an independent church from the Ecumenical Patriarch, a move fiercely opposed by the Russian orthodox church and the Kremlin.
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An earlier version of a picture caption with this article misstated, using information from a photo agency, the location where people watched an ecumenical service in Sweden.
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After leaving Ramparts in a dispute over editorial control, Mr. Colaianni became director of the Liturgical Conference, a Christian ecumenical organization in Washington committed to revitalizing worship.
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Metropolitan Hilarion, head of the Russian church's external relations, stressed that Moscow would not abide by any decisions taken by the Ecumenical Patriarchate regarding the Ukrainian Church.
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Technically, the Patriarch of Constantinople, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, due to his "first among equals" status, can render the Ukrainian Church autocephalous without Russia's participation or approval.
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Since 1971, it has served as a nondenominational ecumenical center, with rotating texts from most of the world's major religions available on site for visitors to read.
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Here in Nashville, through an ecumenical program called Room in the Inn, nearly 200 congregations of many faiths take in our homeless neighbors during the winter months.
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Yet "I and Thou," which uses a generalized, ecumenical vocabulary, has never enjoyed the same stature among Jewish readers as it has with the world at large.
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The sanctions also prevent the U.S. church from speaking on behalf of Anglicans on interfaith or ecumenical bodies and bar it from certain committees for three years.
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They extol the grace and courage of favorite players, the ecumenical bonding experience of fandom, and especially those moments when a devotion to athletic prowess overpowers prejudice.
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DePayne Middleton-Doctor, Ethel Lance, Susie Jackson, Myra Thompson and Rev Daniel Simmons Sr. Events started Friday with an ecumenical service at the TD Arena in downtown Charleston.
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It was not until ecumenical meetings of the Catholic Church at the First and Second Lateran councils in 1123 and 1139 that priests were explicitly forbidden from marrying.
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The two Patriarchs met for three hours at the headquarters of the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, who is also styled as the Archbishop of Constantinople and New Rome.
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He served as chairman of the Bishops' Committee on Ecumenical and Interracial Affairs, and in 1893, he was named to the Vatican Commission on Religious Relations with Jews.
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"The Greek government will welcome Pope Francis and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew as valuable supporters and friends in the struggle to offer refugees some relief," the government official said.
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Instead, it takes an ecumenical approach, looking at the scope of wine culture worldwide and letting history — and the people who make the wines — speak largely for themselves.
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Developing ties with Protestant and Jewish leaders, he helped to create religious and social-welfare groups of mixed denominations and races and won national attention for ecumenical work.
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The presence of Mohamed, a 33-year-old film producer, in the crowd of mourners that night was a quick representation that Parisian grief was universal and ecumenical.
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Noel Andersen, a minister of the United Church of Christ and the national grass-roots coordinator for Church World Service, an ecumenical human rights and refugee resettlement organization.
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Bauerlein was on leave from Emory University, in Atlanta, to attend to his other job, as senior editor of First Things , the ecumenical journal of religion and culture.
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The Ecumenical Patriarch says this transfer was provisional and subject to conditions that were not kept; the Muscovites repeated on September 14th that the transfer was clear and irrevocable.
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The latest arrived on February 6th, when Alexis Tsipras, accompanied by the current Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew, became the first sitting Greek prime minister in history to visit the seminary.
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The key players in this drama are Bartholomew I, the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch who is considered "first among equals" in the Orthodox hierarchy and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.
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"Today, at the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, historical decisions have been taken on the creation of an autocephalous Ukrainian Orthodox Church," Poroshenko said in a televised address.
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Since 22013, the trumpeter Dave Douglas has led the Festival of New Trumpet Music, an ecumenical celebration hitting its 2718th year this week, with events on seven straight nights.
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Which suggests that while the Francis legacy includes certain preconditions for a schism, any true break awaits some new development — another ecumenical council, or at least a different pope.
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Meanwhile on the other side of the road, the Ecumenical Franciscan was holding his ground right in the middle of the Trump supporters waiting for the line to move.
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The service was led by the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who oversees the world's 15 Eastern Orthodox churches from his seat in Istanbul, a city his faith still calls Constantinople.
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The next day, the Russian Orthodox Church decided to sever ties with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, though it stopped short of encouraging other Orthodox churches to do so too.
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"The estimate is that the Ecumenical Patriarchate will examine the issue of autocephaly of Ukraine's church in the coming months, maybe by the end of October," the Greek official said.
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The Ecumenical Patriarch resides in the Turkish city of Istanbul, the former Constantinople, which has remained the historic seat of Orthodoxy despite its fall to the Muslim Turks in 1453.
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One, as widely reported already, is the chronically uneasy relationship between the two best-known of those leaders, the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow.
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"The Solidarity Library has had many homes since its inception, but has been in the Ecumenical Campus Ministries building for a number of years," ECM Director Kim Brook told Hyperallergic.
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His pragmatic, ecumenical approach has borne fruit in North Carolina, where new branches of the N.A.A.C.P. have sprung up in the western part of the state — largely white, Republican territory.
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It has neither a national museum nor a national theater, although it does have a National Ecumenical Center and a National Mosque — proof of how important religion is in Nigeria.
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In the final chapter of Gillespie's career, his United Nation Orchestra was his main vehicle: an ecumenical group of improvisers from across the Americas, pushing his compositions into fresh terrain.
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The church, Pius declares, has become too tolerant and ecumenical; it must not meet people where they are but withdraw and demand, without compromise, that the faithful come to it.
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The artist and writer Anne Doran has selected this year's ecumenical, smartly installed version, which suggests that white men could soon be a minority in the art world, as elsewhere.
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He plans to attend an Orthodox Mass and meet Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the leader of Orthodox Christianity, on the island of Heybeliada in the Sea of Marmara, near Istanbul.
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Parliamentarians in Ukraine formally called on Bartholomew I (who, as Ecumenical Patriarch, is Orthodox Christianity's first among equals) to recognize and help establish a fully independent Orthodox church in that country.
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The French Orthodox association is instead loyal to the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, a rival church leadership in Istanbul that has provided a haven for many of Mr. Putin's churchgoing foes.
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Tillmans's parents were secular, but, as a teen-ager, he joined the socialist-leaning youth club of the local Lutheran church, with whom he went to the French ecumenical monastery Taizé.
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The veterans' organization pointed to testimony from the AHA's own expert that the Legion was a "remarkably diverse and ecumenical organization" in the 1920s, with thousands of Catholic and Jewish members.
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Although the ecumenical service on Monday marked a reconciliation, there are still major doctrinal differences between the churches, on subjects like the role of women in the church and the Eucharist.
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Confirming the visit, a Greek government official said Francis would be accompanied to Lesbos by Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians.
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That ecumenical gesture is characteristic of the Stetties' cosmopolitan fervor, which extended to an active interest in the Harlem Renaissance, through their friend the critic, photographer, and patron Carl Van Vechten.
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Whatever blend of politically ecumenical anti-authoritarianism, high-minded altruism and harmless neurosis may underlie the preparedness, and whatever medical, mechanical or other misfortunes it anticipates, it looks good on everyone.
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Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople, who as the ecumenical patriarch is considered the "first among equals" in church affairs, took several steps last week toward creating an autonomous church in Ukraine.
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Maybe, too, the new science of paternity has had less impact than you might think, because the information it produces is ecumenical and anarchic—marshalled in service of remarkably different goals.
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Mr. Lucas's 1977 foundational movie mostly transcends its flaws with slick looks, hooky effects, old-school heroics and loads of marketable material that helped turn fan love into an ecumenical cult.
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Prior to joining the Campus Reform team, Hannah co-founded an anti-sex trafficking nonprofit and directed interfaith leadership programs in the West Bank for the Holy Land Christian Ecumenical Foundation.
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"Receiving the pope but not praying with him is a contradiction in terms," said Tamara Grdzelidze, professor of Ecumenical Theology and visiting fellow at St. Michael's College at the University of Toronto.
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The decree, granting "autocephaly", was signed by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew at a service with the head of the Ukrainian church Metropolitan Epifaniy and President Petro Poroshenko in St George's Cathedral in Istanbul.
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" This vision, manifest in the chapel's founding in 1971, aspires to "offer a space for ecumenical and interfaith celebration and contemplation, as well as to foster community engagement on critical social issues.
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On April 9th Ukraine's president, Petro Poroshenko, went to Istanbul and spelled out his aspirations before the Ecumenical Patriarch, Bartholomew I, who is considered "first among equals" in the Orthodox Christian world.
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Founded in 1950 as an heir to an earlier ecumenical body, Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, the NCC became known for its fervent involvement in social and political causes.
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That person, Edith Gregor Halpert (1900-1970), was a formidable, feisty and sometimes manipulative self-starter with an ecumenical eye, a passion for art and an inborn instinct for sales and promotion.
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The decision follows a synod in October presided over by the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, the global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, which endorsed Ukraine's request for an "autocephalous", or independent, church.
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Instead, explains a founding member, Jaime Ordonez Victoria, it's an "ecumenical general care organization" that intends to offer housing, health care and mental health services for young and old, of any faith.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, who signed the autocephaly decree on Saturday, handed the document to Ukrainian Metropolitan Epifaniy at St George's Cathedral in Istanbul after a mass to mark the feast of Epiphany.
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Mr. Niebuhr was a key leader of the so-called Protestant establishment, the complex of liberal, ecumenical denominations that dominated the public face of Christianity in the United States until the 1970s.
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"The Ecumenical Patriarch cannot remain blind and deaf to the appeals that have been repeated for more than a quarter of a century," said Bartholomew's representative, Metropolitan Emmanuel, in an address alongside Poroshenko.
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An ecumenical, liberal coalition of anti-abortion allies began to share fetal photographs, abortion videos and the tales of horrified nurses with legislators, and even some who had supported liberalization changed their minds.
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The retreat, which a Vatican statement called "both ecumenical and diplomatic", will end on Thursday with an address to the leaders by Pope Francis, who has expressed a desire to visit South Sudan.
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Among the outfits that agree is the PICO Network, an ecumenical alliance of religious communities which, says Reverend Michael-Ray Mathews, feel "compelled by faith" to tackle communal problems such as gun violence.
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At the migrants camp, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world's Eastern Orthodox Christians, reminded Europeans and their leaders that Christians and others are judged on how they treat the powerless.
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Poroshenko's comments came after the Ecumenical Patriarchate in Istanbul, home to the global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christians, announced it had drafted a constitutional charter for an "autocephalous", or self-governing, Ukrainian church.
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Ukraine had sought the Ecumenical Patriarchate's consent to establish an independent church and won its backing in October, prompting the Russian Orthodox Church to break off diplomatic ties with the Istanbul-based Patriarchate.
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American evangelicalism has always contained a number of different tendencies: It's home to rigorous heirs of the Reformation, seeker-sensitive megachurches, would-be ecumenical "mere Christians," prosperity preachers and hard-edged Christian nationalists.
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Jazz Since 2003, the trumpeter Dave Douglas has led the Festival of New Trumpet Music, an ecumenical celebration hitting its 15th year this week, with events on seven straight nights, Friday through Thursday.
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The Quran is more ecumenical, dipping into the rich mélange of Middle Eastern traditions contained in the apocryphal and "gnostic" gospels and still very much alive in the popular lore of Eastern Christianity.
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"There are issues between our governments and our countries which only dialogue can resolve," he said, flanked by Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual head of Orthodox Christians worldwide and who is based in Istanbul.
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The Ukrainian Orthodox Church wants to become fully self-governing, or autocephalous, and has sought the support of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople, the spiritual leader of the world's roughly 250 million Orthodox Christians.
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The Kiev authorities handed over the use of St. Andrew's to the Ecumenical Patriarch, the global spiritual leader of Orthodox Christianity who sits in Istanbul, while courting the patriarch's support for Ukrainian church independence.
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But the quest has gained impetus since he returned from a visit to Istanbul in April, when Poroshenko sought the backing of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, the spiritual leader of the world's Orthodox Christians.
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The effort to combat climate change has always been bipartisan, involving many leaders from both parties; ecumenical, uniting many leaders of different faiths; and multilateral, bringing together important players from nations across the globe.
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The merchant Bilal Abu Khalaf displays the fabrics and liturgical garments that he sells to groups from all three religions—an ecumenical business that he maintains, it seems, with an edge of nervous defiance.
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She attended the first Assembly of the World Council of Churches and was an ecumenical officer for the Episcopal Diocese of Washington and an associate of the Center for Theology and Public Policy there.
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Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, the spiritual leader, handed a Tomos of Autocephaly containing a decree of independence to the newly appointed Metropolitan Epiphanius of Ukraine, cleaving millions of Ukrainians from the Russian Orthodox Church.
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A dozen of its graduates went on to become heads of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, housed in an Istanbul neighbourhood an hour away by ferry and regarded as the heart of the Orthodox world.
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The raid came a day after President Petro Poroshenko announced Ukraine was close to setting up an independent church under a charter from the Ecumenical Patriarch in Istanbul, the global spiritual head of Orthodox Christians.
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After the murder in 1975 of a journalist, Vladimir Herzog, that the government called a suicide, Cardinal Arns led an ecumenical service, along with rabbis and a Presbyterian minister, that was attended by 8,000 people.
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Russians in the faith argue that their Istanbul-based leader, Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, above, has no right to remove the Ukrainian Orthodox Church from under the wing of the Moscow patriarchate without its consent.
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It is these rights of primacy that the Ecumenical Patriarchate is determined to defend, despite its very reduced circumstances following the city's fall to the Ottomans and the withering of its own flock in Turkey.
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The recent excavations appear to have pinpointed the Patriarchal library and better defined the Large Hall and a surrounding building called the Thomaites, after an ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople named Thomas I (607-610 CE).
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" Francis paid tribute on Sunday to John XXIII, saying that the pontiff, who was canonized in 2014, had "worked tirelessly to promote fraternal cooperation between all Christians" and to support "the development of ecumenical relationships.
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Once a month for the past decade, the composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and author David Amram, 29, has held forth as an artist in residence; he is the perfect avatar of the cafe's ecumenical soul.
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January, 2019 - Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew, spiritual head of the world's Orthodox Christians, formally grants independence to the Ukrainian church, marking an historic split from Russia which Ukraine's leaders saw as vital for their country's security.
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A MINUS Now That's What I Call Tailgate Anthems (Sony Music Entertainment) This decades-spanning blunt instrument dispenses with the vaguely heart-warming ecumenical mix-and-match the Now cartel usually makes a pass at.
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Francis addressed the troubled history between the Christian churches as he led an ecumenical vespers service at a basilica in Rome on Monday to mark the closing day of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
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Chris Wallace, a tough-minded and ecumenical interviewer, recently grilled Stephen Miller , a senior Trump adviser, on the need for a border wall, given that virtually all drugs seized at the border are discovered at checkpoints.
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Ecumenical in their support for Russian revolutionaries, the Germans subsidized not only Lenin's Bolsheviks, but also socialist rivals such as Leon Trotsky, then a Menshevik, who published antiwar articles in Paris and then New York City.
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Still, the "spirit of Vatican II," or its overall ecumenical ethos, is cited by proponents and critics alike to refer to post-Vatican-II liberalizing tendencies that exceed the remit of Vatican II's more narrow reforms.
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In Crete and the Dodecanese Islands, the church is directly under the aegis of the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarch; across a big swathe of northern Greece, authority is shared contentiously between the Istanbul-based and Athenian hierarchs.
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Francis hosted the daylong ecumenical service in the symbolically rich Adriatic port city of Bari, considered a bridge between east and west and home to the relics of St. Nicholas, an important saint in the Orthodox world.
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That paved the way for Archbishop Ieronymos to join the primate of the new Ukrainian church, Epifaniy, and many other Bartholomew-minded hierarchs at celebrations in Istanbul of the Ecumenical Patriarch's personal feast-day on June 11th.
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That ecumenical aspiration turns on this curious opening contention: Mr Phillips's refusal to serve Mr Craig and Mr Mullins should not be understood as an assertion of a "right to generally refuse service to same-sex couples".
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The Ecumenical Patriarch, currently Bartholomew, does not wield the power enjoyed by the Pope in the Roman Catholic Church but is traditionally regarded as the 'first among equals' among the patriarchs of the self-governing Orthodox churches.
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In a statement posted online last week, the organizers invoked Catholic social teaching and the example of Pope Francis, known for his ecumenical spirit and common touch, to explain their opposition to Mr. Pence and his politics.
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Turkish government interference in the independence of the Armenian and Ecumenical Patriarchates, desecration of churches in Occupied Cyprus, oppression of Syriac Christians native to their southeastern region, and reckless actions in Northeast Syria all underscore this point.
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It is also suspending all services with top priests of the Patriarchate of Constantinople and will not commemorate the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I in its services, Legoida wrote on social media, summarizing the outcome of the meeting.
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