- Church council - Council convened to discuss church business - Heresy, no doubt, included in church meeting - An ecclesiastic council or meeting to consult on church
matters. - An assembly or council having civil authority; a legislative
body. - A conjunction of two or more of the heavenly bodies.
- Concerned with promoting unity among churches - General; universal; in ecclesiastical usage, that which
concerns the whole church; as, an ecumenical council.
- Conforming to established views - Conventional, conformist - Traditional - Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious
doctrine; hence, holding the Christian faith; believing the doctrines
taught in the Scriptures; -- opposed to heretical and heterodox; as, an
orthodox Christian. - According or congruous with the doctrines of Scripture,
the creed of a church, the decree of a council, or the like; as, an
orthodox opinion, book, etc. - Approved; conventional.
- At variance with established opinion - Holdinga wildly different opinion - Contrary to, or differing from, some acknowledged
standard, as the Bible, the creed of a church, the decree of a council,
and the like; not orthodox; heretical; -- said of opinions, doctrines,
books, etc., esp. upon theological subjects. - Holding heterodox opinions, or doctrines not orthodox;
heretical; -- said of persons. - An opinion opposed to some accepted standard.
- Non-Catholic Christian - One who protests; -- originally applied to those who
adhered to Luther, and protested against, or made a solemn declaration
of dissent from, a decree of the Emperor Charles V. and the Diet of
Spires, in 1529, against the Reformers, and appealed to a general
council; -- now used in a popular sense to designate any Christian who
does not belong to the Roman Catholic or the Greek Church. - Making a protest; protesting. - Of or pertaining to the faith and practice of those
Christians who reject the authority of the Roman Catholic Church; as,
Protestant writers.