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Oecumene
Oecumene is a term originally adopted within Christianity, where it has been suggested there is a single believing community amongst the various different Christian denominations, particularly between the Roman Catholic Church and the denominations which arose by the Great Schism of 1054 and from the European Reformation. The most important document in the Christian oecumene the declaration of the Commission for Belief and Church Order of the World Council of Churches concerning Baptism, the Eucharist and Holy Office, also known as the Lima Report, which appeared in 1982.
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