Colloquy (religious)

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title: "Colloquy (religious)" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["history-of-christian-theology", "church-councils"] topic_path: "history" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colloquy_(religious)" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

A religious colloquy is a meeting to settle differences of doctrine or dogma, also called a colloquium (meeting, discussion), as in the historical Colloquy at Poissy, and like the legal colloquy, most often with a certain degree of judging involved. Religious colloquies are relatively common as a means to avoid calling full synods and avoiding out-and-out breaches leading to schisms.

Colloquy may also be defined as the conversation of prayer with God, a private opportunity with God the Father, to plead one's need for assistance, reassurance or forgiveness. St. Gregory of Nyssa is quoted as saying "Prayer is conversation, and colloquy with God."

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