Churches that claim some form of episcopal apostolic succession, dating back to the apostles or to leaders from the apostolic era, include the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Church of the East, the Anglican Communion, and some Lutheran Churches ( see below ).

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.

Various smaller communities, such as the Old Catholic and Independent Catholic Churches, include the word Catholic in their title, and share much in common with Roman Catholicism but are no longer in communion with the See of Rome.

These groups include the ' Brethren ' ( often both ' Open ' and ' Exclusive '), the Churches of Christ, Mennonites, Primitive Baptists, and certain Reformed churches, although during the last century or so, several of these, such as the Free Church of Scotland have abandoned this stance.

Other Christian denominations include the Philippine Independent Church ( more commonly called the Aglipayan Church ), Iglesia ni Cristo ( one of a number of separate Churches of Christ generally not affiliated with one another ), and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormon ).

Groups within the Protestant tradition that reject infant baptism include the Baptists, Apostolic Christians, Disciples of Christ and the Churches of Christ, most Pentecostals, Mennonites, Amish, Plymouth Brethren, Seventh-day Adventists, most non-denominational churches, and other Arminian denominations.

Trinitarian Christian denominations that oppose infant baptism include Baptists, Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), Christian Churches / Churches of Christ, and Churches of Christ, Anabaptists such as Mennonite and Amish, Schwarzenau Brethren / German Baptists, Seventh-Day Adventists, some Methodists and most Pentecostals.

Orthodox distinctives ( shared with some of the Eastern Catholic Churches ) include the Divine Liturgy, Mysteries or Sacraments, and an emphasis on the preservation of Tradition, which it holds to be Apostolic in nature.

Churches with roots in this movement include the Churches of Christ, Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), Evangelical Christian Church in Canada and the Christian churches and churches of Christ.

WCC member churches include most of the Orthodox Churches ; numerous Protestant churches, including the Anglican Communion, some Baptists, many Lutheran, Methodist, and Presbyterian and other Reformed, a sampling of united and independent churches, and some Pentecostal churches ; and some Old Catholic churches.

Other typical parade participants include local LGBT-friendly churches such as Metropolitan Community Churches, United Church of Christ, and Unitarian Universalist Churches, Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays ( PFLAG ), and LGBT employee associations from large businesses.

Churches established in the city in later years include Beech Grove Wesleyan Church ( formerly Pilgrim Holiness Church, in the 1920s ); Independent Nazarene Church ( in the 1950s ); Faith Assembly of God ( Assemblies of God, 1958 ); South Emerson Church of God ( Reformation Movement, Church of God ( Anderson ), 1961 ); Southwood Baptist Church ( Southern Baptist Convention, 1962 ); and Ascension Lutheran Church ( Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, 1972 ).

Churches in High Shoals include First Baptist Church, New Heights Baptist Church, High Shoals Church of God, and Riverview True Holiness Church of God ‎.

Churches in town include the Church of Christ, the Presbyterian Church, St. Johns Lutheran, and McComb United Methodist Church.

Churches include the historic St. James Lutheran Church, which has since been vacant since a split in the parish.

Local Churches include:

The encyclical letter is accompanied by sixty-three resolutions ( which include careful provision for provincial organisation and the extension of the title archbishop " to all metropolitans, a thankful recognition of the revival of brotherhoods and sisterhoods, and of the office of deaconess ," and a desire to promote friendly relations with the Eastern Churches and the various Old Catholic bodies ), and the reports of the eleven committees are subjoined.

These include the Free Church of Scotland ( formed of those congregations which refused to unite with the United Presbyterian Church in 1900 ), the United Free Church of Scotland ( formed of congregations which refused to unite with the Church of Scotland in 1929 ), the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland ( which broke from the Free Church of Scotland in 1893 ), the Associated Presbyterian Churches ( which emerged as a result of a split in the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland in the 1980s ) and the Free Church of Scotland ( Continuing ) ( which emerged from a split in the Free Church of Scotland in 2000 ).

The whole, however, may be judged from this fragment: " We Irish, though dwelling at the far ends of the earth, are all disciples of St. Peter and St. Paul ... we are bound to the Chair of Peter, and although Rome is great and renowned, through that Chair alone is she looked on as great and illustrious among us ... On account of the two Apostles of Christ, you pope are almost celestial, and Rome is the head of the whole world, and of the Churches ".

Tradition attributes to Dobrawa the establishment of the Holy Trinity and St. Wit Churches in Gniezno and the Church of the Virgin Mary in Ostrów Tumski, Poznań.

The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, used in the Byzantine Churches, still has a formula of dismissal of catechumens ( not usually followed by any action ) at this point.

He also played organ at Philadelphia's Christ Church and composed or edited a number of hymns and psalms including: " A Collection of Psalm Tunes with a few Anthems and Hymns Some of them Entirely New, for the Use of the United Churches of Christ Church and St. Peter's Church in Philadelphia " ( 1763 ), " A psalm of thanksgiving, Adapted to the Solemnity of Easter: To be performed on Sunday, the 30th of March, 1766, at Christ Church, Philadelphia " ( 1766 ), and " The Psalms of David, with the Ten Commandments, Creed, Lord's Prayer, & c. in Metre " ( 1767 ).

St. Mary of Bethany is commemorated in the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches with her sister Martha on June 4, as well as on the Sunday of the Myrrhbearers ( the Third Sunday of Pascha, i. e. the Third Sunday of Easter ).

Sts Cyril and Methodius ' feast day is currently celebrated on 14 February in the Roman Catholic Church ( to coincide with the date of St Cyril's death ); on 11 May in the Eastern Orthodox Church ( though note that for Eastern Orthodox Churches still on the Julian Calendar or ' old calendar ' this is 24 May according to the Gregorian calendar ); and on 7 July according to the old sanctoral calendar that existed before the revisions of the Second Vatican Council.

After First World War the Polish community starting having masses in Polish in Churches of Saint Ann and since 1921 in St. Martin church ; a Polish consulate was opened on the Main Square, and a Polish School was formed by Helena Adamczewska.

The Syriac Orthodox Church, the Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church and the Greek Orthodox Church, as well as the Syriac Catholic Church, the Syro-Malankara Catholic Church and all Byzantine Rite Eastern Catholic Churches, commemorate Saint Clement of Rome ( called in Syriac " Mor Clemis ") on 24 November ; the Russian Orthodox Church commemorates St Clement on 25 November.

In agreement with the Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodox Churches, Anglo-Catholics — along with Old-Catholics and Lutherans — generally appeal to the " canon " ( or rule ) of St Vincent of Lerins: " What everywhere, what always, and what by all has been believed, that is truly and properly Catholic.

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* Uxbridge Parish of St Margaret's and St Andrew's Churches

The dissolution of the Monarchy and the establishment of the Puritan Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell had great effect on many Cathedrals and Churches, particularly felt in St David's.

Simon Jenkins ' book, England's Thousand Best Churches, has St Botolph's ranked within the top 18.

As befits the size and architectural importance, not to mention the massive running costs of such a building, St Botolph's is a member of the Anglican Greater Churches Group, established for the small number of parish churches that have cathedral-like proportions without the title to match.

* St Edmund's church on the Suffolk Churches website

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

The cornerstone reads " Immanuel Lutheran School 1959 ", but the school is now a joint effort of Immanuel, Bethlehem, St. Paul ( Blue Point ) and Zion Lutheran Churches, all of which are within the Missouri Synod division of the Lutheran Church.

" The settlement had grown by 1859 large enough to establish one of the oldest Catholic Churches in Lafayette Parish ; St. Anne Catholic Church, and had named its oldest street, Church Street.

First Baptist Church of Upper Marlboro ( established 1959 ), Greater St. John Baptist Church ( established in DC in 1963 ) and Cornerstone Peaceful Baptist Church, formed in 1987 as a merger of the Cornerstone Baptist and Peaceful Baptist Churches, are also located in Greater Upper Marlboro.

The New Testament offered to the public today is the first result of the work of a joint committee made up of representatives of the Church of England, Church of Scotland, Methodist Church, Congregational Union, Baptist Union, Presbyterian Church of England, Churches in Wales, Churches in Ireland, Society of Friends, British and Foreign Bible Society and National Society of Scotland.

The designation of five Catholic theologians to attend the World Council of Churches assembly in New Delhi as `` official '' observers reverses the Church's earlier stand.

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 the exception of the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Catholic Churches, most churches make no moral distinction between rhythm and mechanical or chemical contraceptives, allowing the couple free choice.

Today, the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches stand virtually alone in holding that conviction.

In March, 1931, 22 out of 28 members of a committee of the Federal Council of Churches ratified artificial methods of birth control.

This development is reflected in the action taken in February, 1961, by the general board of the National Council of Churches, the largest Protestant organization in the Aj.

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.

Representing as it did the efforts of only unauthorized individuals of the Roman and Anglican Churches, and urging a communion of prayer unacceptable to Rome, this association produced little fruit, and, in fact, was condemned by the Holy Office in 1864.

but my primary aim is to transcribe what Englishmen themselves are saying and writing and implying about the Roman and Anglican Churches and about the present religious state of England.

An amazing article in the Manchester Guardian of last November, entitled `` Fate Of Redundant Churches '', states than an Archbishops' Commission `` reported last month that in the Church of England alone there are 790 churches which are redundant now, or will be in 20 years' time.

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 ''.

Roughly 26 % are followers of traditional forms of Protestantism ( Congregationals, Methodists, Baptista, Lutherans, Reformed ), but over the last decades there has in addition been a growth of Pentecostal communities and African Initiated Churches.

With a membership currently estimated at over 85 million members worldwide, the Anglican Communion is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches.

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.

Some Eastern Orthodox Churches have issued statements to the effect that Anglican orders could be accepted, yet have still reordained former Anglican clergy ; other Orthodox churches have rejected Anglican orders altogether.

Anglican clergy who join the Orthodox Church are reordained ; but Orthodox Churches hold that if Anglicanism and Orthodoxy were to reach full unity in the faith, perhaps such reordination might not be found necessary.

In some ways they represent a stronger opposition because they have the backing of many member provinces of the Anglican Communion and, in some cases, are or have been missionary jurisdictions of such provinces of the Communion as the Churches of Nigeria, Kenya, Rwanda, and the Southern Cone of America.

In Western Christianity, this day is observed principally in the Catholic Church, although some churches of Anglican Communion and the Old Catholic Churches also celebrate it.

In the Eastern Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches, the Abbot is referred to as the Hegumen.

Arianism is defined as those teachings attributed to Arius which are in opposition to mainstream Trinitarian Christological doctrine, as determined by the first two Ecumenical Councils and currently maintained by the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Churches, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, and most Reformation Protestant Churches.

In contrast, in the Arian German kingdoms established on the wreckage of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, there were entirely separate Arian and Nicene Churches with parallel hierarchies, each serving different sets of believers.