involving or joining together members of different branches of the Christian Church 基督宗教合一的;大公的 an ecumenical committee 普世委员会
Oxford Collocations DictionaryEcumenical is used with these nouns:- council
- movement
- theology
- …
Word Originlate 16th cent. (in the sense ‘belonging to the universal Church’): via late Latin from Greek oikoumenikos from oikoumenē ‘the (inhabited) earth’.