Editing Immaculate Conception (section)

==Other denominations==
{{further|Sinlessness of Mary}}

=== Oriental Orthodoxy ===
The [[Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church|Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo]] and [[Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church]]es believe in the Immaculate Conception of the Theotokos. The Ethiopic phrase used to express that the Blessed Virgin Mary is free from original sin is "መርገመ ስጋ መርገመ ነፍስ የሌለባት". The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church celebrates the Feast of the Immaculate Conception on Nehasie 7 (August 13).<ref name=Eritrean>{{Cite web|url=https://english.eritreantewahdo.org/bwl-advanced-faq/what-is-our-position-on-st-mary-and-immaculate-conception-and-what-is-it/|title=What is our position on St. Mary and Immaculate Conception and what is it?|date=January 19, 2016|publisher=Diocese of U.S.A. and Canada, [[Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://eotcmk.org/e/the-birth-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-2/|title=THE BIRTH OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY – Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church Sunday School Department – Mahibere Kidusan}}</ref>
The proposition of Ethiopian Orthodox reads: "''Our Lady, the Virgin Mary, who conceived and gave birth to Jesus Christ in virginity is free from the original sin derived from the descendants of Adam, clean from any sins of the flesh and soul; embedded in the conscience of God before the time of her birth, free and protected from human desires and frailties, and the choicest from among the chosen. Such is the Virgin Mary - Pure and Holy of Holies''. (Song 4.7)".{{sfn|EOTC|2017|p=51}} This is synodal statement.

===Eastern Orthodoxy===
[[Eastern Orthodoxy]] never accepted Augustine's specific ideas on original sin, and in consequence did not become involved in the later developments that took place in the Catholic Church, including the Immaculate Conception,{{sfn|McGuckin|2010|p=218}}{{sfn|Coyle|1996|p=36}} although Eastern Orthodoxy affirms Mary's purity and preservation from [[Christian views on sin|sin]].

In 1894, when Pope [[Leo XIII]] addressed the Eastern church in his encyclical ''Praeclara gratulationis'', Ecumenical Patriarch [[Anthimus VII of Constantinople|Anthimos]], in 1895, replied with an encyclical approved by the Constantinopolitan Synod in which he stigmatised the dogmas of the Immaculate Conception and papal infallibility as "Roman novelties" and called on the Roman church to return to the faith of the early centuries.{{sfn|Meyendorff|1981|p=90}} Eastern Orthodox Bishop [[Kallistos Ware]] comments that "the [[Latin Church|Latin]] dogma seems to us not so much erroneous as superfluous".{{sfn|Ware|1995|p=77}}

===Old Catholics===
In the mid-19th century, some Catholics who were unable to accept the doctrine of papal infallibility left the Roman Church and formed the [[Old Catholic Church]]. This movement rejects the Immaculate Conception.{{sfn|Hillerbrand|2012|p=63}}{{sfn|Smit|2019|pp=14, 53}}

===Protestantism===
Protestants overwhelmingly condemned the promulgation of ''Ineffabilis Deus'' as an exercise in papal power, and the doctrine itself as unscriptural,{{sfn|Herringer|2019|p=507}} for it denied that all had sinned and rested on the Latin translation of Luke 1:28 (the "full of grace" passage) that the original Greek did not support.{{sfn|Hammond|2003|p=601}} Protestants, therefore, teach that Mary was a sinner saved through grace, like all believers.{{sfn|German|2001|p=596}}

The [[Catholic–Lutheran dialogue]]'s statement ''The One Mediator, the Saints, and Mary'', issued in 1990 after seven years of study and discussion, conceded that Lutherans and Catholics remained separated "by differing views on matters such as the invocation of saints, the Immaculate Conception and the [[Assumption of Mary]]";<ref name="Ryan1990">{{cite web |display-authors=3 |first1=J. Francis |last1=Stafford |first2=Avery |last2=Dulles |first3=Robert B. |last3=Eno |first4=Joseph A |last4=Fitzmyer |first5=Elizabeth |last5=Johnson |first6=Killian |last6=McDonnell |first7=Carl J. |last7=Peter |first8=Walter |last8=Principe |first9=Georges |last9=Tavard |first10=Frederick M. |last10=Jelly |first11=John f. |last11=Hotchkin |first12=George |last12=Anderson |first13=Robert W. |last13=Bertram |first14=Joseph W. |last14=Burgess |first15=Gerhard O. |last15=Forde |first16=Karlfried |last16=Froelich |first17=Eric |last17=Gritsch |first18=Kenneth |last18=Hagen |first19=John |last19=Reumann |first20=Daniel F. |last20=Martensen |first21=Horace |last21=Hummel |first22=John F. |last22=Johnson |title=Lutheran-Catholic Statement on Saints, Mary |url=http://www.usccb.org/beliefs-and-teachings/ecumenical-and-interreligious/ecumenical/lutheran/upload/lu20.pdf |publisher=[[USCCB]] |access-date=7 April 2020 |language=en |date=23 February 1990}}</ref> the final report of the [[Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission]] (ARCIC), created in 1969 to further ecumenical progress between the Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, similarly recorded the disagreement of the Anglicans with the doctrine, although [[Anglo-Catholic]]s may hold the Immaculate Conception as an optional pious belief.{{sfn|Armentrout|2000|p=260}}