conciliar
Pronunciation
  • (British) IPA: /kənˈsɪlɪə/
Adjective

conciliar

  1. Pertaining to a council, especially an ecclesiastical council.
    • 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin 2010, p. 560:
      The next few years saw increasing tension between those wishing to develop this conciliar mechanism and successive popes seeking to build on the papacy's newly restored integrity.
    • 2011, Norman Davies, Vanished Kingdoms, Penguin 2012, p. 347:
      This was the era which witnessed the beginnings of the conciliar movement, which sought to subordinate the papacy to the decisions of Church Councils.



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