Ecumenical (adj)
eek-yu-men-i-kal
Representing a number of different Christian Churches.
Late 16th century (in the sense ‘belonging to the universal Church’): via late Latin from Greek oikoumenikos from oikoumenē ‘the (inhabited) earth’.
Example sentences
“he was part of the ecumenical committee.”
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