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| | Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Lakewood Church |
 | | The congregation has grown so large, that the church has recently begun renovating the sports arena formerly known as Compaq Center (former home of the NBA Houston Rockets) to be the Central Campus in early 2005. | | | He became pastor in 1999 after his father, John, the founding pastor of the church, passed away. | | | Lakewood Church is the largest evangelical church in the United States. |
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| | CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: The Church |
| | The Church, according to this theory, is not a society established by eternal Divine interposition. | | | In this sense, it is sometimes distinguished, signifying the Church before the Old Covenant, the Church of the Old Covenant, or the Church of the New Covenant. | | | Calvin declares that the Church is to be found "where the word of God is preached in its purity, and the sacraments administered according to Christ's ordinance" (Instit., Bk. |
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| | Catholic Encyclopedia - The Church in China |
| | Buddhism, however, prevailed at court, and two of the Nestorian churches were converted to heathen temples. | | | We may judge their numbers and influence by the fact that friar Oderic, about 1324, found three Nestorian churches in the city of Yang-chou, but soon afterwards they fell into decay. | | | Evidence of their existence was found by the Jesuits at the beginning of the seventeenth century. |
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| | World encyclopedia of church history |
| | world encyclopedia of church history brought from other bad action of yours, than hir beautie laps, our courage to cowardice, Americas, in Europe, first his sisters,58 and and told Helen to (them to be) matrons! |
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| | Scientology, Church of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 |
| | The church’s status as a religion was, however, ultimately established in those and many other countries. | | | Some, including some former members, view the church as an elaborate cult, a charge the church and many religious scholars deny. | | | The first church was established in Los Angeles in 1954. |
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| | State religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | State churches or religions are examples of the official or government-sanctioned establishment of religion. | | | The Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1869 and the Church of England was disestablished in Wales in 1920, becoming the Church in Wales. | | | State religions typically exist in countries or jurisdictions where they the majority of residents are considered adherents; however much of this support is little more than nominal, with many members of the church rarely attending it. |
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| | Byzantine Catholic Church in America |
| | Byzantine Catholics are witnesses to the reality of the Resurrection and Ascension of Christ, and follow Christ, in and with Him, to His heavenly Kingdom in the Divine Liturgy, the principal liturgical service of the Byzantine Church. | | | Byzantine Catholics are Orthodox Christians who embrace full communion with the Church of Rome and its primate, Pope John Paul II, the successor of St. Peter, the first among the Apostles. | | | Byzantine Christian Worship: God With Us Byzantine Catholic worship joyfully celebrates the presence of the Kingdom of God on Earth in and through its divine services and liturgical life. |
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| | Presbyterianism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Other Presbyterian bodies in the United States include the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA), the Orthodox Presbyterian Church (OPC), the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (EPC), the Reformed Presbyterian Church, the Bible Presbyterian Church (BPC), the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church (ARP Synod), the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and the Reformed Presbyterian Church in the United States (RPCUS). | | | In Ireland the Presbyterian Church was formed from the Church of Scotland and later became the Presbyterian Church in Ireland. | | | The Presbyterian church in England and Wales is the United Reformed Church, whilst the tradition also influenced the Methodist church, established in 1736. |
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| | Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Eastern Catholic Churches include the Armenian Catholic Church, the Chaldean Catholic Church, the Eparchy of Krizevci, the Italo-Albanian Catholic Church, the Maronite Church, the Romanian Catholic Church, the Ruthenian Catholic Church, the Syrian Catholic Church, the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church, and the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church. | | | Both churches claim to be the One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, and reject the other's claim to this title. | | | An example of this is the lack of communion between the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia and the Moscow Patriarchate (the Orthodox Church of Russia), the conflict arising early in the 20th century due to a serious distrust of the soviets. |
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| | House church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | House churches should not be confused with "cell churches". | | | A commonly held belief in the modern day house church "movement" is that the Protestant Reformation did not go far enough to demonstrate a New Testament belief in the "priesthood of all believers" and that Jesus Christ alone is the Head of the Church which is the body of Christ. | | | House church is an informal term for a group of Christians gathering regularly or spontaneously in a home or on grounds not normally used for worship services, instead of a building dedicated to the purpose. |
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| | Episcopal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Episcopal churches are the churches with bishops, those with episcopalian church governance, but generally those whose bishops are in Apostolic Succession. | | | Churches that are members of the Anglican Communion are episcopal churches in polity, and some are named "Episcopal." However, some Anglican churches do not belong to the Anglican Communion, and not all episcopally-governed churches are Anglican. | | | The Roman Catholic Church, the Old Catholic Churches (member of the Anglican Communion), and the Eastern Orthodox churches are recognized, and also their bishops, by Anglicans. |
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| | Roman Catholic Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Byzantine Church of the Eparchy of Križevci (Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro) | | | The Catechism of the Catholic Church, 85 states that authentic interpretation of the Word of God is entrusted to the living Magisterium of the Church, namely the bishops in communion with the successor of Peter. | | | Bishops are the successors of the apostles in the governance of the Church. |
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| | Maronite Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The head of the Maronite Church is the Maronite Patriarch of Antioch, who is elected by the bishops of the Maronite church and now resides in Bkirki, north of Beirut. | | | Maronites (Marunoye ܡܪܘܢܝܐܶ; in Syriac, Mâruniyya مارونية in Arabic) are members of an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Pope of the Roman Catholic Church. | | | Churches : Antiochian Orthodox Church · Assyrian Church of the East · Chaldean Catholic Church · Maronite Catholic Church · Melkite Greek Catholic Church · Syriac Catholic Church · Syriac Orthodox Church |
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| | Spiritualist Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Today, Spiritualist Churches in Britain are divided between National Spiritualism and Christian Spiritualism. | | | The Spiritualist Church arose from the Spiritualist movement which began in the 1840s in America. | | | In 1853 the first Spiritualist Church in the British Isles was established by David Richmond at Keighley in Yorkshire. |
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| | Church of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Church of England traces its formal corporate history from the 597 Augustinian mission, stresses its continuity and identity with the primitive universal Western church, and notes the consolidation of its <b>particularb> independent and national character in the post-Reformation events of Tudor England. | | | In Scotland, the Church of Scotland is recognised in law (Church of Scotland Act 1921) as the "national church", but since 1929 it has not been "established" in the same manner as the Church of England. | | | The Church of England is also a full member of the Conference of European Churches. |
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| | Living Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | the Patriarchal Church, to be a “heresy” and a “schism”. | | | Some of the churches were returned to the "Tikhonites" (as many used to call the "Patriarchal" Church at that time) and many bishops and priests who were pressed to support the schism, repented and were received back into communion. | | | Modern church historians generally regard the Renovationist movement as a deviation from the sincere and well-founded attempts at proper ecclesiastical reforms in the beginning of the 20th century. |
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| | Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Originally the church was called the "Church of Christ" due to the belief that it is the restored Church of Jesus Christ. | | | Members of the church — known as Latter-day Saints— believe their faith to be the divinely appointed restoration of the church established by Jesus Christ as depicted in the New Testament. | | | The church membership report includes all those who have been baptized by the church (adults and youth), regardless of attendance or whether they even consider themselves to be members (people who ask to have their names removed from church records are not included in the tally). |
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| | BIGpedia - Episcopalian church governance - Encyclopedia and Dictionary Online |
| | The Catholic churches of Rome and Byzantium (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox in modern terms) are episcopalian, as are the Oriental Orthodox churches. | | | Episcopalian government in the church is rule by a hierarchy of bishops (Greek: episcopoi). | | | Also, the non-Chalcedonian churches of the Orient (Nestorian) and Egyptian Coptic Orthodox (Monophysite), are episcopalian; however, differences concerning the person of Christ have caused these not to be in full communion with the Orthodox and the Catholics, ever since the Council of Chalcedon in the fifth century. |
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| | Taiwanese (linguistics) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Tainan, Taiwan: Jîn-kong (an imprint of the Presbyterian Church in Taiwan). | | | Tainan, Taiwan: Tâi-oân Kàu-hoē Kong-pò-siā (Taiwan Church Press, Presbyterian Church in Taiwan). | | | POJ was developed first by Presbyterian missionaries and later by the indigenous Presbyterian Church in Taiwan; they have been active in promoting the language since the late 19th century. |
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| | Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Orthodox believe she was assumed into heaven bodily; however, unlike in the Roman Catholic Church, it is not a dogmatic prescription and the holy day is usually referred to as the Feast of the Dormition, not that of the Assumption. | | | Above the nave in the dome of the church is the icon of Christ the Almighty (Pantokratoros, "Ruler of All"). | | | The present-day influence of the Eastern Orthodox Church encompasses the territories associated with the former Byzantine and Russian empires: Eastern Europe, Asia (Russia/Siberia), and parts of the Middle East and Africa. |
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| | High church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | "High Church" is a term that may now be used in speaking of viewpoints within a number of denominations of Protestant Christianity in general, but it is one which has traditionally been employed in Churches associated with the Anglican tradition in <b>particularb>. | | | Supporters of the "High Church" position emphasise that these practices have to do with holiness, sanctity, and respect for God, Jesus, and the Church itself as the Body of Christ. | | | In the 17th century, the term "High Church" was a used to describe those divines and laity who placed a "high" emphasis on complete adherence to the Established Church position, including some elements that involved ritual or liturgical practice inherited from the Early Church or Undivided Church. |
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| | State religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Church of Ireland was disestablished in 1869 and the Church of England was disestablished in Wales in 1920, becoming the Church in Wales. | | | A state religion (also called an established church or state church) is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the state. | | | With the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, the prohibition on established churches was interpreted as a general prohibition on state support of religion. |
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| | Mariavite Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | It led to the division of the Church that was to be the completion of Kozłowska's prophecy that Mariavite Church was to experience a schism as Christianity had earlier in its history. | | | The Mariavite Church is an independent Catholic and Christian church that emerged from the Polish Roman Catholic Church at the turn of the 20th century. | | | Furthermore there is of the Mariavites consecrated however withdrawn from the community with the church (Episcopi vagantes) exist. |
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| | Christian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Other denominations (The Church of Christ, International Churches of Christ, and the Independent Christian Churches) teach that the definition of a Christian is someone who has been baptized as a repenting adult “in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.”– (Matthew 28:19). | | | The universal church traditions generally espouse that the Church includes all who are baptized into her common faith, including the doctrines of the trinity, forgiveness of sins through the sacrificial action of Christ, and the resurrection of the body. | | | Church is taken by some to refer to a single, universal community, although others contend that the doctrine of the universal church was not established until later. |
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| | Baptist - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Landmarkism is the belief that Baptist churches and traditions have preceded the Catholic Church and have been around since the time of John the Baptist and Christ. | | | Baptists who were imprisoned or died for their beliefs have played an important role in the historical struggle for freedom of religion and separation of church and state in England, the United States, and other countries. | | | Baptist churches are part of a Christian movement often regarded as an Evangelical, Protestant denomination. |
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| | Temple Church - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Marble effigies of medieval knights in the Temple Church. | | | In the 1580s, the church was the scene of the Battle of the Pulpits, a theological conflict between Calvinists and supporters of the Church of England. | | | In addition to the church, the new compound originally contained residences, military training facilities, and recreational grounds for the military brethren and novices, who were not permitted to go into the city without the permission of the Master of the Temple. |
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| | Encyclopedia: Free Church of Scotland |
| | The Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland was formed in 1893 and claims to be the spiritual descendant of the Reformation. | | | The Free Church of Scotland (1843-1900) was a Scottish denomination formed by the withdrawal of a large section of the established Church of Scotland in a schism known as the Disruption of 1843. | | | The Free Church was formed by the Evangelicals who broke from the Church of Scotland in 1843 protest against what they regarded as the state's encroachment on the spiritual independence of the Church. |
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