In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

Another major church body had 4,499,608 members and twenty years later its membership stood at 4,622,444.

Abbesses are, like abbots, major superiors according to canon law, the equivalents of abbots or bishops ( the ordained male members of the church hierarchy who have, by right of their own office, executive jurisdiction over a building, diocesan territory, or a communal or non-communal group of persons — juridical entities under church law ).

Since 1947, a major historical re-enactment commemorating the Declaration's signing has been held within the roofless remains of the Abbey church.

Having restored the unity of the Empire, and, being in course of major governmental reforms as well as of sponsoring the consolidation of the Christian church, he was well aware that Rome was an unsatisfactory capital.

Although it is dated " 1631 ", this is thought to be the date of a subsequent refurbishment coincidental with major renovations of the church in the 17th century.

For Orthodox no further council would therefore be needed until such time as a major crises arose within the church.

In 1634, Borromini received his first major independent commission to design the church, cloister and monastic buildings of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane ( also known as San Carlino ).

He gave a series of lectures on Dante at the Santo Stefano church in 1373 and these resulted in his final major work, the detailed Esposizioni sopra la Commedia di Dante.

By employing students Telemann took away a major resource for Kuhnau's choir ( and church music in Leipzig in general ); Kuhnau was also concerned that students were too frequently performing in operas, leaving them with less time to devote to church music.

During the Commonwealth, Fox had hoped that the movement would become the major church in England.

Later hymnody in the Western church introduced four-part vocal harmony as the norm, adopting major and minor keys, and came to be led by organ and choir.

Finally, a major ecclesiastical-political quarrel developed when Bern, Geneva ’ s ally in the reformation of the Swiss churches, proposed to introduce uniformity in the church ceremonies.

While no compromise could ever be accepted by the dogmatic wing of the church, his sincere efforts at reconciliation gained him the approval of the major body of the church.

The portions of the cities that remained intact were small and modest and contained a cathedral or major church ( often sumptuously decorated ) and a few public buildings and townhomes of the aristocracy.

Getting agreement took many months, and Mary and Pope Julius III had to make a major concession: the monastery lands confiscated under Henry were not returned to the church but remained in the hands of the new landowners, who were very influential.

Although none of the major opera houses "... use traditional, Broadway-style sound reinforcement, in which most if not all singers are equipped with radio microphones mixed to a series of unsightly loudspeakers scattered throughout the theatre ", many use a sound reinforcement system for acoustic enhancement, and for subtle boosting of offstage voices, child singers, onstage dialogue, and sound effects ( e. g., church bells in Tosca or thunder effects in Wagnerian operas ).

" From its earliest beginnings, Christianity spread much more quickly in major urban areas ( like Antioch, Alexandria, Carthage, Corinth, Rome ) than in the countryside ( in fact, the early church was almost entirely urban ), and soon the word for " country dweller " became synonymous with someone who was " not a Christian ," giving rise to the modern meaning of " pagan.

Panentheism was a major force in the Unitarian church for a long time, based on Ralph Waldo Emerson's concept of the Oversoul.

The early part of the 20th century saw continued growth in both major sections of the church.

On June 29, 1984, the Unitarian Universalists became the first major church " to approve religious blessings on homosexual unions.

The major weekly worship service occurs on Saturday, typically commencing with Sabbath School which is a structured time of small-group study at church.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Glace Bay served as the hub of the Sydney & Louisburg Railway and also as a major fishing port.

The major communities of the region include Halifax and Sydney in Nova Scotia, Saint John, Fredericton and Moncton in New Brunswick, and Charlottetown in Prince Edward Island.

Then in the early 1980s there were major changes in the Australian brewing industry, including the merger of Castlemaine ( Brisbane ), Swan ( Perth ) and Toohey's ( Sydney ) into a national brewing group, as a result of acquisitions by Perth entrepreneur Alan Bond.

Granville has a major college of Technical and Further Education, which is part of the South Western Sydney Institute of TAFE.

Gosford is considered a major commercial centre of the Sydney Metropolitan Area, and has been designated as an important growth centre under the NSW Metropolitan Strategy.

He has appeared as a soloist for all the major Australian orchestras, and has been Guest Principal Oboe with the Sydney Symphony.

The Saints had relocated to Sydney ; in April, they and Radio Birdman united for a major gig at Paddington Town Hall.

The allegations of corruption against Askin were revived in 2008 when Alan Saffron, the son of the late Sydney crime boss Abe Saffron, published a biography of his father in which he alleged that Saffron had paid bribes to major public officials including Askin, former police commissioner Norman Allan, and other leading figures whom he claimed he could not name because they were still alive.

Montevideo, the capital and major port, sits on the banks of the Río de la Plata and is on approximately the same latitude as Cape Town and Sydney.

During the late 1960s, the University of Sydney was at the centre of rows to introduce courses on Marxism and feminism at the major Australian universities.

After attending Loreto Normanhurst, Martin graduated from the University of Sydney in 1975 with a Bachelor of Arts degree, in which her major study was Music.

Though mainstream audiences in the early sixties preferred a clean-cut style – epitomised by the acts that appeared on the Nine Network pop show Bandstand – there were a number of ' grungier ' guitar-oriented bands in major cities like Sydney and Melbourne, who were inspired by American and British instrumental and surf acts like Britain's The Shadows – who exerted an enormous influence on Australian and New Zealand music prior to the emergence of The Beatles – and American acts like guitar legend Dick Dale and The Surfaris.

) Sydney is a major global city with a vibrant scene of musical, theatrical, visual, literary and other artistic activity.

The legendary Thommo's Two-up School, which operated at various locations in Surry Hills, Sydney from the early years of the 20th century until at least 1979, was one of Australia's first major illegal gambling operations.

The latter two flow into Lake Burragorang, which is located just outside the park and is the site of Warragamba Dam, the major source of drinking water for Sydney.

Henry Lawson Drive is a major arterial road within southern Sydney.

Ramp metering is used to regulate access to a number of major roads in Sydney, including: M4 Western Motorway ( Wallgrove Road on-ramp ); the M5 East motorway ( Kingsgrove Road on-ramp ); and the citywest Link to Anzac Bridge.

The first major nature reserve was Yellowstone National Park, followed by the Royal National Park near Sydney, Australia and Il ' menskii zapovednik of Soviet Russia in 1920 — the first of its kind set up by a federal government entirely for the scientific study of nature.

The new nation required a capital that was located away from other major settlements such as Melbourne and Sydney.

Her first major stage role was opposite Geoffrey Rush in the 1993 David Mamet play Oleanna, for which she won the Sydney Theatre Critics ' Best Newcomer Award.

In October 2008, The Vines commenced a national Australian tour in support of Melodia, playing small venues across major cities throughout Australia, including The Metro Theatre ( Sydney ), ANU Bar ( Canberra ), The HiFi Bar ( Melbourne ), The Great Northern Bar ( Byron Bay ), The Tivoli ( Brisbane ), The Governor Hindmarsh ( Adelaide ), and The Rosemount Hotel ( Perth ).

Western Union was a major shirt-sponsor of the Sydney Roosters NRL team from 2002 – 2003.

In major Radburn areas such as Mt Druitt in Sydney the current Housing NSW are selling off many of their properties as they pass their economical maintenance life and begin to cost more than they are worth.