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nouna body serving in an administrative capacitytype of:
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nouna meeting of people for consultationtype of:
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noun(Christianity) an assembly of theologians and bishops and other representatives of different churches or dioceses that is convened to regulate matters of discipline or doctrinetype of:
Definition that contains council
- soviet an elected governmental council in a communist country (especially one that is a member of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics)
- trent a city in northern Italy (northwest of Venice) on the River Adige; the site of the Council of Trent
- constance the council in 1414-1418 that succeeded in ending the Great Schism in the Roman Catholic Church
- councillor a member of a council
- councilman a man who is a council member
- constantinople the fifth ecumenical council in 553 which held Origen's writings to be heretic
- constantinople the sixth ecumenical council in 680-681 which condemned Monothelitism by defining two wills in Christ, divine and human
- constantinople the council in 869 that condemned Photius who had become the patriarch of Constantinople without approval from the Vatican, thereby precipitating the schism between the eastern and western churches
- constantinople the second ecumenical council in 381 which added wording about the Holy Spirit to the Nicene Creed
- tc a permanent council of the United Nations that commissions a country (or countries) to undertake the administration of a territory