It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II * listed building, and is under the care of a national charity, the Churches Conservation Trust.

The Eastern Catholic Churches are represented in the Holy See and the Roman Curia through the Congregation for the Oriental Churches, which " is made up of a Cardinal Prefect ( who directs and represents it with the help of a Secretary ) and 27 Cardinals, one Archbishop and 4 Bishops, designated by the Pope ad quiquennium.

In the Greek Churches archbishops are ranked above metropolitans in precedence, as in the case of Archbishop Demetrios of America, who is the Primate of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America, and primates of local churches below patriarchal rank are generally designated as archbishops.

It has been designated as a Grade II * listed building and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

It has been designated as a Grade II * listed building, and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

It has been designated as a Grade II * listed building and is now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

In 1993, San Agustin Church was one of four Philippine churches constructed during the Spanish colonial period to be designated as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, under the collective title Baroque Churches of the Philippines.

It has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building and is under the care of the Churches Conservation Trust.

The Congregation for Bishops ( Congregatio pro Episcopis ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia which oversees the selection of new bishops that are not in mission territories or those areas that come under the jurisdiction of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches who deal with the Eastern Catholics, pending papal approval.

In the Eastern Catholic Churches ( which recognize papal authority and are a part of the larger Catholic Church ), the equivalent unit is called an eparchy.

Another key issue was papal primacy, which involved the universal and supreme jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome over the whole Church, including the national Churches of the East ( Serbian, Greek, Bulgrarian, Russian, Georgian, Armenian, etc.

In December 1634 Windebank was appointed to discuss with the papal agent Gregorio Panzani the possibility of a union between the Anglican and Roman Churches, and expressed the opinion that the Puritan opposition might be crippled by sending their leaders to the war in the Netherlands.

Over this particular Church the Pope exercises, as well as his papal authority, the authority that in other particular Churches belongs to a Patriarch.

The Roman ( ultramontane ) doctrine of papal infallibility is not accepted by the other Catholic Churches and, moreover, has no practical utility.

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With a view to better protecting the authority of the local vicar apostolic or bishop, it was proposed in the First Vatican Council to abolish prefects apostolic having jurisdiction over districts within a vicariate or diocese of the Latin Rite, but the Council was interrupted and the practice continued until Pope Leo XIII abolished them within the Oriental Churches by a decree of Propaganda Fide on 12 September 1896, and established superiors with special dependence on the papal representatives of the areas concerned.

The Congregation for Bishops ( Congregatio pro Episcopis ) is the congregation of the Roman Curia which oversees the selection of new bishops that are not in mission territories or those areas that come under the jurisdiction of the Congregation for the Oriental Churches who deal with the Eastern Catholics, pending papal approval.

He received a national media award for comment and analysis in 1992 for Sunday Independent articles on the fall of Charles Haughey as Taoiseach and was awarded the 1998 Templeton European Religion Writer of the Year for articles in The Irish Times on Drumcree, the papal visit to Cuba that year, and articles criticisng the Irish Churches for failing to practise what they preached on reconciliation.

Churches were designed with vaulting from the outset, rather than as colonnaded basilicas with timber roofs, and many have octagonal domes with squinches over their crossings or choirs.

The former five patriarchal basilicas with the Basilica of the Holy Cross in Jerusalem and San Sebastiano fuori le mura formed the traditional Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome, which are visited by pilgrims during their pilgrimage to Rome following a itinerary established by St Philip Neri on the 25 February 1552, especially when seeking the plenary indulgence on Holy Years.

The basilica is one of the Seven Pilgrim Churches of Rome and one of the five Patriarchal basilicas, each of which is assigned to a patriarchate.

While most patriarchs in the Eastern Catholic Churches have jurisdiction over a " ritual church " ( a group or diocese of a particular Eastern tradition ), all Latin Rite patriarchs, except for the Pope, have only honorary titles.

Roman Catholics view the Bishop of Rome as the " Successor of Peter " to serve as universal pastor to the entire Church, though all the particular Churches in communion with him have their own distinct pastoral heads, who, taken as a college in union with the Successor of Peter, are considered to be the subject of supreme power in the universal Church.

Other congregations specialize in a particular theology or religious practice ( UU Christian Churches in New England, for instance, or congregations which focus on the spiritual practice of justice and service ).

The Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches had developed from early on the idea of infallibility of the Church — that the Church may speak entirely without error in particular councils or edicts ; or that, in a less definable way, the Church is infallibly directed so that it always stands in the truth ; and indeed, and claim that the Church has the promise of Jesus that it shall do so.

The particular Churches that form the Catholic Church are each seen, not as a separate body that has entered into practical arrangements concerning its relations with the others, but as the embodiment in a particular region or culture of the one Catholic Church.

: The universal Church cannot be conceived as the sum of the particular Churches, or as a federation of particular Churches.

It is not the result of the communion of the Churches, but, in its essential mystery, it is a reality ontologically and temporally prior to every individual particular Church.

This applies both to the local particular Churches, such as dioceses or eparchies, in the Catholic Church and to the " sui iuris " ( autonomous ) Churches within it.

Although seven-shape books may not be as popular as in the past, there are still a great number of churches in the South, in particular Primitive Baptist, Independent Fundamental Baptist, and Churches of Christ, as well as Conservative Mennonites throughout North America, that regularly use seven-shape songbooks in Sunday worship.

The Eastern Catholic Churches ( historically known by the now non-complimentary term Uniate Churches, which is still in use in some areas, and also by the inaccurate term eastern-rite Churches ) are autonomous, self-governing ( in Latin, sui iuris ) particular churches in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, the Pope.

The term Eastern Catholic Churches refers to 22 of the 23 autonomous particular Churches in communion with the Bishop of Rome.

( Every diocese is a particular Church, but not an autonomous one in the sense in which the word is applied to these 22 Churches.

Theologically, all the particular Churches can be viewed as " sister Churches ".

The Second Vatican Council spoke of the Eastern Catholic Churches as " particular Churches or rites ".

As they do not receive Holy Orders in the Catholic, Orthodox and Oriental Churches, they do not possess the ability to ordain any religious to Holy Orders, or even admit their members to the non-ordained ministries to which they can be installed by the ordained clergy ( females do not serve as clergy anyway, per formal church teaching, in these churches ), nor do they exercise the authority they do possess under canon law over any territories outside of their monastery and its territory ( though non-cloistered, non-contemplative female religious members who are based in a convent or monastery but who participate in external affairs may assist as needed by the diocesan bishop and local secular clergy and laity, in certain pastoral ministries and administrative and non-administrative functions not requiring ordained ministry or status as a male cleric in those churches or programs ).

* The Churches of the Carmini ( 1372 ) and St. Catherine ( 1292 ), formerly belonging to the Humiliati, possess notable pictures ;

Dorfl joined the Watch during the events of Feet of Clay, at which time he was set free by Captain Carrot, sustained considerable damage fighting the golem king, and was rebuilt to a considerable degree, granting him a voice ( which had been considered blasphemous for golems to possess, prior to Dorfl's argument with the Council of Churches, Temples, Sacred Groves and Big Ominous Rocks ).

Seekers considered all Churches and denominations to be in error, and believed that only a new Church established by Christ upon His return could possess His grace.

Churches under the spiritual jurisdiction of the four Eastern Orthodox Patriarchates generally require that such a monastic priest possess a university degree in theology before they are elevated to the rank of archimandrite.

Churches that have adhered to the Protestant Reformation have favoured as altars free-standing wooden tables placed in the quire away from the east wall and the high altar, and without any altar stone.

Under the influence of the high church functionary and later state bishop Ingo Braecklein, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia seceded from the Evangelical Church in Germany ( EKD ) and prompted the foundation of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in the GDR ( Bund der Evangelischen Kirchen in der DDR ) in 1969.

In addition to VFW-and AL-sponsored corps, other drum corps were founded by Boy Scouts of America troops ( such as the corps that would become the modern-day corps: the Racine Scouts, The Cavaliers and the Madison Scouts ), Elks lodges, YMCAs, the Catholic Youth Organization, Police Athletic Leagues ( such as would found the Bluecoats ), fire fighter organizations, and local businesses, as well as Churches, grammar schools, high schools and colleges.

Goerdeler's proposed constitution called for a strong executive, a high degree of decentralisation, a Reichstag elected partially by the people on a British-style " first-past-the-post " basis ( instead of by party lists ) and partially by members of local councils, and a Reichsrat composed of representatives nominated by Christian Churches, trade unions, universities, and business groups.

) In its decree Orientalium Ecclesiarum the Second Vatican Council declared: " The Catholic Church holds in high esteem the institutions, liturgical rites, ecclesiastical traditions and the established standards of the Christian life of the Eastern Churches, for in them, distinguished as they are for their venerable antiquity, there remains conspicuous the tradition that has been handed down from the Apostles through the Fathers and that forms part of the divinely revealed and undivided heritage of the universal Church.

The Rock-hewn Churches of Ivanovo (, Ivanovski skalni tsarkvi ) are a group of monolithic churches, chapels and monasteries hewn out of solid rock and completely different from other monastery complexes in Bulgaria, located near the village of Ivanovo, 20 km south of Rousse, on the high rocky banks of the Rusenski Lom, 32 m above the river.

In the usage of the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite, the Great Doxology is one of the high points of the festal Matins service.

* mitre, a traditional, ceremonial head-dress of ancient Jewish high priests and of bishops and some other clergy in Christian Churches

Churches and other businesses throughout the community offered their facilities so the high school students could complete the school year.

Churches, non-profits, school groups, and other private groups also sponsor coffee houses in church meeting rooms, colleges, and high schools.

The position of Herman Hoeksema and all leaders of the Protestant Reformed Churches is unique to the denomination, and is based on a high view of the word " grace " as a Biblical concept of favor applied only to the elect.

In disputing the diocesan newsletter's characterisation of his remarks, Dale was pointing out one of the tenets of his faith, that the styling of priests and other high members of the church, as " Father ," a common practice in the Catholic Church, is not accepted among the Churches of Christ.

Delegates from all of the Orthodox Churches as well as high secular dignitaries were in attendance, including the President of Greece, and senior officials representing the governments of Palestinian National Authority, Jordan and Qatar, as well as diplomats and military officials.