Talk:Catholic ecumenical councils

Provincial councils
The link "Provincial councils" directs to the article which is not in any connection. It is silly!

--Josinj (talk) 08:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)


 * You're right. I've fixed it. Lyndwood (talk) 00:43, 16 February 2011 (UTC)

Title
Is this a proper noun? If not, it should be moved to Catholic ecumenical council, note the singular per WP:SINGULAR. --JFHutson (talk) 21:15, 11 January 2013 (UTC)

Additional wiklinks - SuggestBot
Greetings, Recently this article was included in my SuggestBot listing for Wikify. I did add several as well as move some links to their first occurrence. If there are any other important ones that I may have overlooked please continue to improve where needed. Regards, JoeHebda (talk) 21:43, 24 June 2015 (UTC)

how does a council make the list?
It would be useful for the article to indicate how a council makes the list. Is a list maintained by the Church? Was there a binding document that listed them? Is this list here original research? Of course I "know" that the RCC maintains that there have been 21 ECs, but I can't say where it says that officially. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 00:51, 6 September 2016 (UTC)

need sources
after a brief scan the following statements at least need sources. 1) male heads of religious orders included automatically 2) Council of Jerusalem "considered by Catholics to be the first Ecumenical Council". Never heard this. Nicaea is always listed as the first one.--Richardson mcphillips (talk) 12:54, 17 January 2019 (UTC)


 * 1) heads of male religious orders: statement removed.
 * 2) Council of Jerusalem was ecumenical: statement removed. see following section on this page. MDJH (talk) 01:29, 4 December 2021 (UTC)

Number of Councils
The article in its present state is self-contradictory. It says there have been 21 ecumenical councils (as does any other reputable source on councils considered ecumenical by the Catholic Church). But a section of the article (presumably added by another editor) claims that the Council of Jerusalem (held around 50 AD) is considered ecumenical by the Catholic Church. When Jerusalem is added to the councils listed in the article, there is a total of 22 ecumenical councils. Some individual Catholics might say that Jerusalem was an ecumenical Council, but this is not the position of the Church. Every encyclopedia and similar source says the first ecumenical Council was Nicaea in 325. The very idea of an ecumenical (i.e. world-wide) council did not emerge before the 4th century.

I will wait for a month to allow for reactions to this. If nothing significant happens, I will then remove the article's reference to the ecumenical nature of the Council of Jerusalem. MDJH (talk) 17:40, 27 October 2021 (UTC)


 * Council of Jerusalem removed from list of ecumenical councils. MDJH (talk) 01:24, 4 December 2021 (UTC)