ecumenicist

An impassioned ecumenicist, he could companionably marry Renaissance liturgical music to a fox trot, as he did on at least one occasion, “Missa Super l’Homme Armé,” a 1968 opera.

In other business of the seven-day assembly, the commissioners: > Heard Ecumenicist Blake give a mildly encouraging report on the progress of his one-big-church proposal.

Like his predecessor, now Lord Fisher of Lambeth, he is a convinced ecumenicist, and serves as one of six co-presidents of the World Council of Churches.

But the openness of some is on selected issues: Munich's Julius Dopfner, 49, for example, is a convinced ecumenicist and a modern-minded theologian, but was disturbed by Pope John's opening to the East.

A fervent ecumenicist, he called for an end to divisive tensions between Christians and Jews, between Roman Catholics and Protestants.