Are ecumenical councils infallible?
On One Hand: The Roman Catholic ViewThe Ecumenical Councils are assemblies to which all bishops in the Catholic Church are invited, though they need not all attend for the council to be considered validly ecumenical, or worldwide, in nature. The most recent is the Second Vatican Council held in the mid-1960s. According to Catholic doctrine, these councils, when properly convened and when seeking to authoritatively teach, speak without error on matters of faith and morality.On the Other: Other Christian DenominationsOther Christian denominations have a variety of opinions on the Ecumenical Councils. These range from holding them as authoritative but not infallible, as the Eastern Orthodox do, to not regarding them as authoritative at all, as many Protestant denominations do. Christians also differ about which Councils are Ecumenical. Some recognize only four, others recognize seven and Roman Catholics recognize 21.Bottom LineRoman Catholics regard the 21 councils recognized by the Churc
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