ecumenical movement

English

Noun

ecumenical movement

1. a movement among Protestant groups since the 1800s aimed at achieving universal Christian unity through international or interdenominational organizations. There are also Ecumenical Councils in the Roman Catholic church; since the Great Schism (1054), the Eastern churches have not been involved.

Related terms

• ecumene
• ecumenic
• ecumenical
• ecumenicalism
• ecumenicism
• ecumenism