Augustin Cardinal Bea, the director of the Secretariate for Christian Unity, has expressed as directly as anyone the new spirit that pervades the Church's stance toward the Protestant and Orthodox Churches.

With great difficulty he made his way from his native Hungary to Geneva to renew his contacts as a member of the Provisional Committee for the World Council of Churches.

Leslie Newbiggin reflects the dominant position within the World Council of Churches when he says, `` We must claim absoluteness and finality for Christ and His finished work, but that very claim forbids us to claim absoluteness and finality for our understanding of it ''.

Its intent was to provide the basis for discussions of reunion with the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches, but it had the ancillary effect of establishing parameters of Anglican identity.

But in this Council, and later, in that of Florence, Ambrose, by his efforts and charity toward some poor Greek bishops, greatly helped to bring about a union of the two Churches, the decree for which, 6 July 1439, he was called on to draw up.

In the Churches mentioned here by name, the oil used ( called " oil of the sick " in both West and East ) is blessed specifically for this purpose.

Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites.

Though the anthem of the Church of England is analogous to the motet of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches, both being written for a trained choir and not for the congregation, it is as a musical form essentially English in its origin and development.

It is widely used by a number of Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical Churches of Western tradition, including the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Western Orthodoxy.

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.

It is widely used by a number of Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical Churches of Western Christian tradition, including the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, Lutheranism, Anglicanism, and Western Orthodoxy.

These churches are generally not in communion with Eastern Orthodox Churches with whom they are in dialogue for erecting a communion.

In the Catholic Church ( both the Western and Eastern Catholic Churches ) the act of canonization is reserved to the Holy See and occurs at the conclusion of a long process requiring extensive proof that the person proposed for canonization lived and died in such an exemplary and holy way that he or she is worthy to be recognized as a saint.

In the case of the Eastern Catholic Churches, individual churches sui juris retain, in theory, the right to glorify saints for their own jurisdictions, though this has rarely happened in practice.

The only exception is for patriarchs of Eastern Catholic Churches.

In 1965 Pope Paul VI decreed in his motu proprio Ad Purpuratorum Patrum that patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches who were named cardinals would also be part of the episcopal order, ranked after the six cardinal bishops of the suburbicarian sees ( who had been relieved of direct responsibilities for those sees by Pope John XXIII three years earlier ).

Old and disused church buildings can be seen as an interesting proposition for developers as the architecture and location often provide for attractive homes or city centre entertainment venues On the other hand, many newer Churches have decided to host meetings in public buildings such as schools, universities, cinemas < ref >

The Apostles ' Creed is widely used by most Christian denominations for both liturgical and catechetical purposes, most visibly by liturgical Churches of Western tradition, including the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church, Lutheranism, the Anglican Communion, and Western Orthodoxy.

In 1906, the U. S. Religious Census listed Churches of Christ for the first time as a group which was separate and distinct from the Disciples of Christ.

The Regional Churches of the Christian Church provide resources for leadership development and opportunities for Christian fellowship beyond the local congregation.

The Greek island of Syros, whose population is divided almost equally between Catholics and Orthodox, is one of the few places where the two Churches share a common date for Easter, with the Catholics accepting the Orthodox date-a practice helping considerably in maintaining good relations between the two communities.

The most obvious distinction between the two groups was the Churches of Christ rejecting the use of musical instruments in worship.

The Churches of Christ permitted only those practices found in accounts of New Testament worship.

The Roman Catholic Church, as well as the Anglican Communion, Eastern Orthodox Churches and Oriental Orthodox Churches venerate ( not worship ) saints who are in Heaven.

Many churches which use a contemporary worship format use a small amplified band to accompany the singing, and Roman Catholic Churches may use, at their discretion, additional orchestral accompaniment.

While this practice is common among a wide spectrum of Western denominations ( Eastern Churches do not employ instrumental accompaniment in their worship ) it is particularly typical, and distinctive to the heritage of the Moravian Church.

More than 100 places of worship county-wide represent a variety of denominations and architectural styles, earning Midland the nickname " City of Beautiful Churches ".

In addition to the encyclical letter, nineteen resolutions were put forth, and the reports of twelve special committees are appended upon which they are based, the subjects being intemperance, purity, divorce, polygamy, observance of Sunday, socialism, care of emigrants, mutual relations of dioceses of the Anglican Communion, home reunion, Scandinavian Church, Old Catholics, etc., Eastern Churches, standards of doctrine and worship.

The church is regularly used for worship by the Romanian and Russian Orthodox Churches, and the Malankara Mar Thoma Syrian Church.

In Presbyterian and Reformed Churches, canon law is known as " practice and procedure " or " church order ," and includes the church's laws respecting its government, discipline, legal practice and worship.

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.

Many mainline Protestant Churches include corporate confession in regular worship.

" Churches " in this context refers to the community of Christians living in each city, and not merely to the building or buildings in which they gathered for worship.

For the Churches of Christ, any practices not present in accounts of New Testament worship were not permissible in the church, and they could find no New Testament documentation of the use of instrumental music in worship.

Disciples congregations tended to be wealthier and constructed larger, more expensive church buildings ; Churches of Christ built more modest structures, and criticized the wearing of expensive clothing in worship.

The use of instrumental music in worship was not a source of division among the Churches of Christ in Great Britain before World War I.

*** Churches, synagogues, mosques, other houses of worship

Churches began to adopt some of these songs and the styles for corporate worship.

Others, such as the Orthodox Churches and the Catholic Church, see Christ as the centre, but the Church also as essential ( extra Ecclesiam nulla salus ) because of the close union between Christ and the Church described in Biblical passages such as the Epistle to the Ephesians ( see Bride of Christ ), and they view the worship and piety of certain Protestants as centred on celebrity pastors and factions rather than on Christ.

* Churches of Christ in Christian Union — focuses on free-form worship and evangelism.

* Churches of Christ — associated with the Restoration Movement ; known for sola scriptura, a cappella worship, and baptism for the forgiveness of sins.