The church universal this year celebrates the 1,700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council intended to address all the churches of Christianity. Though his ongoing ...

There hadn't been an ecumenical council — an assembly ... "Many people maintained that with the definition of papal infallibility in 1870, councils were no longer needed. So it was a big ...

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. Such an ecumenical council ...