cumenical

This patriarch, John, surnamed the Faster, usurped the arrogant title of [oe] cumenical, or universal patriarch.

The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints January, February, March Alban Butler

Protestants, whom the pope invited to participate, absented themselves; yet such was the number and renown of the Catholic bishops who responded to the summons that the Council of Trent easily ranked with the eighteen œcumenical councils which had preceded it.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

These "Liberties" had been formulated in a French declaration of 1682 and involved two major claims: (1) that the pope had no right to depose or otherwise to interfere with temporal monarchs, and (2) that in spiritual affairs the general council of bishops (œcumenical council) was superior to the sovereign pontiff.

A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. Carlton J. H. Hayes 1923

Letters from Rome on the Occasion of the cumenical Council.

Cardinal Manning: Bibliography 1918

An cumenical council does, indeed, possess sovereign authority in the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

The fact that cumenical councils required the papal confirmation before their decrees were valid (a principle expressly admitted by the early councils themselves) tended not a little to direct the attention of all Christians to the fullness of jurisdiction residing in the successor of St. Peter.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

The first is urgent necessity, e.g. when one is persecuted, obliged by ill health to seek change of climate, called away in obedience to a lawful superior, attendance at an œ; cumenical council, making the prescribed ad limina visit.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

The whole body is again anointed with chrism (to hagion hyron) prepared very elaborately with fifty-five various substances by the cumenical patriarch on Maundy

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

Church, but it cannot be cumenical without the pope.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

On the other hand, the theory proposed in the fifteenth century at the Councils of Constance and Basle, which made the pope subject to an cumenical council; the Gallican theory, that would impose limits on his power by the ancient canons received in the Church, and requiring the acceptance or consent of the Church before his decisions could become irreformable; and the theory of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913