Many religions popular in ethnic regions of the Soviet Union, including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism underwent ordeals similar to that which the Orthodox churches in other parts of the country suffered: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed.

Before this time, the Hohenzollern sovereign had held many titles and crowns, from Supreme Governor of the Protestant Churches ( summus episcopus ) to King, Elector, Grand Duke, Duke for the various regions and realms under his rule.

In regions where the Eastern Churches have been dominant from ancient times, apostolic and missionary activity is solely the responsibility of this Congregation, even if the above is carried out by Latin Rite missionaries.

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 Orthodox Churches would not accept the validity of any ordinations performed by the Independent Catholic groups, as Orthodoxy considers to be spurious any consecration outside of the Church as a whole.

Orthodoxy considers apostolic succession to exist only within the Universal Church, and not through any authority held by individual bishops ; thus, if a bishop ordains someone to serve outside of the ( Orthodox ) Church, the ceremony is ineffectual, and no ordination has taken place regardless of the ritual used or the ordaining prelate's position within the Orthodox Churches.

There are small Methodist Churches in most European countries, the strongest outside the British Isles being in Germany.

The Churches of Peace (, ) in Jawor ( German: Jauer ) and Świdnica ( German: Schweidnitz ) in Silesia were named after the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 which permitted the Lutherans in the Roman Catholic parts of Silesia to build three Evangelical churches from wood, loam and straw outside the city walls, without steeples and church bells.

The term " Shrove Tuesday " is no longer widely used in the United States outside of Liturgical Traditions, such as the Lutheran, Episcopal, and Roman Catholic Churches.

In the Eastern Orthodox Church and some of the Oriental Orthodox Churches an ecclesiastical walking stick is used by bishops, archimandrites and hegumens ( abbots ) when walking outside.

A number of groups outside the U. S. also have historical associations with this movement, such as the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, and the Churches of Christ in Australia.

Oriental Orthodox Churches regularly pray in the vernacular of the community within which a Church outside of its ancestral land is located.

The Fellowship of Evangelical Bible Churches exists to increase fellowship between member congregations, promote evangelism and missions, and represent the congregations through membership in boards and organizations outside the FEBC.

The Russian Orthodox Church and the Orthodox Churches from Wallachia and Moldavia were the only part of the Orthodox communion that remained outside the control of the Ottoman Empire.

Scheme of several Apostolic Churches inside and outside the Netherlands from 1830 until 2005.

In this phase, many such schools were commenced not by parent associations but by churches themselves, although several parent groups from outside the Reformed Churches studied and adopted the parent-controlled model and have commenced schools which, while they have no Dutch or Reformed Church connections, have still affiliated themselves nationally with many schools which do.

Many outside of these churches sometimes conflate them with other Churches of Christ, which serve the Lord's Supper using a single cup, and / or which refrain from having divided, age-distinct Bible classes (" Sunday School ").

* Churches pooling resources to perform work under the oversight of a single congregation or outside institution.

For example, in the United States, Catholic Churches in communion with the Holy See often display the Vatican flag along with the American flag, typically opposite sides of the sanctuary, near the front door, or outside.

The northern boundary of the village follows the A45 to the west, then south to just outside Everdon, then skirts Everdon Wood and Everdon Stubbs, and borders Stowe Nine Churches to the south-east, and lies to a short distance east of the A5 up to the A45, next to Flore parish.

Scheme of several Apostolic Churches inside and outside the Netherlands from 1830 until 2005.

Selfmade scheme of the Apostolic Churches inside and outside the Netherlands

Churches dedicated to Saint Alban outside England include St. Alban's Church in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is the city's only Anglican church.

He is well known and respected in the public sphere of the broader community outside the congregation in which he is employed ( he is a member of the local Hospice Board ), and enjoys good relations with other sectors of the clerical community, with the notable exception of vocal critics within local congregations of non-Institutional Churches of Christ.

In the twentieth century, some Presbyterians played an important role in the Ecumenical Movement, including the World Council of Churches.

The most important of his historical works, however, is his Genesis of the New England Churches ( 1874 ).

John R. Mott also played an important role in the founding of the World Student Christian Federation in 1895, and the World Council of Churches in 1948.

The electorate of the ARP changed in the interbellum-the difference between lower class Protestants who voted ARP and middle class Protestant Protestants who voted CHU began to disappear, with religious differences between the Dutch Reformed Church ( CHU ) and the Reformed Churches in the Netherlands ( ARP ) becoming more important.

Churches marked the most important centers.

The Oriental Orthodox Churches have continued to consider Jubilees an important book of the Bible and older than Genesis.

Churches include La Compañía, San Juan and La Cruz, but the most important structure built during this time period was the Cathedral.

His most important work was his Treatise on Evangelical Churches, in which were contained his latest views regarding church government.

The rise of women leaders in the temperance and missionary movements also played an important role in separating the Christian Churches and Churches of Christ.

Churches were considered as important to communities of the 18th and 19th centuries as were barns.

Cormier also designed two important Roman Catholic Churches for the Diocese of Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

It is more important now than ever before that young people should “ serve in churchwide responsibilities .” Churches now encourage teenagers to evangelize at their age, rather than waiting until adulthood to spread the gospel.

Since its founding as a junior college in 1946, Florida College has drawn its staff, faculty, and the majority of its students from non-institutional Churches of Christ ( Restoration Movement ); it is also recognized among these churches as an important training center for ministers.

The most important era — once widely used by the Eastern Churches, and still used by the Coptic Church — was the Era of Martyrs, also known as the Diocletian Era, whose first year began on August 29, 284.

In the Orthodox, Catholic and Anglican Churches, the most important rite is called the Eucharist ; the name derives from the Greek word eucharistia for thanksgiving.

Churches of the International Baptist Convention hold as important the following beliefs — the triune Godhead, Jesus Christ as the only savior, the Bible as the inspired Word of God, personal faith in Christ, the priesthood of all believers, baptism by immersion for believers only and religious liberty.

Churches were perhaps as important in rural Canada in those days as having a general store and a hotel in the community since most people of the day did attend the church of their faith.

The monastery is important in the historical development of the liturgy of the Orthodox Church in that the monastic Typicon ( manner of celebrating worship services ) of Saint Sabas became the standard throughout the Eastern Orthodox Church and those Eastern Catholic Churches which follow the Byzantine Rite.

Churches on the island contain many important paintings and artworks by famous Venetian artists, including Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellini and others.

A comparison of the two positions, which came to designate two interwoven and contentious traditions in the Christian Reformed Churches in the Netherlands and the Christian movements that flowed from its membership, is presented in one of the three chapters that Jacob Klapwijk contributed to a very important self-critical work of Reformational philosophy, entitled Bringing into Captivity Every Thought ( 1991 ).

The Holy Trinity is an important subject of iconographic representation in Eastern Orthodox Christianity, and has a rather different treatment from depictions in the Western Churches.

Through the internet, it maintains a number of international and ecumenical email discussion groups, as well as promoting the work of the Joint Commission for the Dialogue between the Eastern and Oriental Orthodox Churches through an important website.

In matters which affect the Eastern as well as the Latin Churches, the Congregation operates, if the matter is important enough, in consultation with the Dicastery that has competence in the matter for the Latin Church.