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By the close of the third session, in November of 1964, the Council had voted in favour of two Constitutions and three Decrees. The Constitutions were those dealing with the liturgy and with the Church; the Decrees were on Oecumenism, on the Eastern Churches, and on "Means of Communication" (dealing with modern mass media, such as the Press, cinema, radio and television; this Decree was generally regarded as excessively clerical, abstract and unworthy of its important subject).
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Ann K. Riggs, a former assistant director of the Catholic bishop's ecumenical office, has been approved by the National Council of Churches to head its office for the theological work in ecumenical talks. (People).(Brief Article)
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The 9th Assembly was the first to be held in Latin America since the Council´s creation in 1948, and the host churches from Brazil and the broader region were actively involved in the event. The rich daily prayer life of the gathering was combined with Sunday worship in local Protestant, Catholic and Orthodox congregations.
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Among Protestant churches, bodies equivalent in authority to the ecumenical councils of the Roman Catholic church include the general assemblies of the Presbyterian denomination, the general conferences of the Methodist denomination, and the general conventions of the Protestant Episcopal church. The term council is ... applied by Protestant denominations to assemblies convened to deal with doctrinal and administrative matters. These councils, however, do not have the authority of the councils of the Roman Catholic church; in the Baptist and Congregational denominations, for example, the national councils are merely advisory assemblies.
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Theologians such as Fr. John S. Romanides have argued... that the councils universally regarded as ecumenical within the Orthodox Church seemed of themselves to have no sense of requiring a reception by the Church before they went into effect. Their texts do indeed include self-declarations of their ecumenicity, and in most cases, their decrees immediately were written into Roman imperial law. No condition of later reception is reflected in the councils' texts.
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The nineteenth ecumenical council opened at Trent on 13 December, 1545, and closed there on 4 December, 1563. Its main object was the definitive determination of the doctrines of the Church in answer to the heresies of the Protestants; a further object was the execution of a thorough reform of the inner life of the Church by removing the numerous abuses that had developed in it.
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