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.

Others join " conventions ", such as the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Baptist Convention or the American Baptist Churches USA ( formerly the Northern Baptist Convention ).

Some congregations in the ALC opted not to join the merger and instead formed the American Association of Lutheran Churches.

Those congregations that did not join the Uniting Church formed the Fellowship of Congregational Churches or continued as Presbyterians.

The Orthodox Christian Reformed Churches, another breakaway from the Christian Reformed Church, voted to join the URCNA in 2008 upon the latter's invitation.

" The first churches to be invited to join COCU beyond the first four were the International Convention of Christian Churches ( Disciples ), the Polish National Catholic Church, and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, which later merged with the Methodist Church to form the United Methodist Church.

These Dutch immigrants first made contact with already-existing Reformed churches in Canada, especially the Protestant Reformed Churches in America ( PRC ) and the Christian Reformed Church in North America ( CRCNA ), in the hope that they could join with them.

About 40 Lutheran Free Churches however did not join the ALC, instead forming the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations ( AFLC ) in October 1962.

Forty congregations elected not to join, and subsequently formed the Fellowship of Congregational Churches.

However when the Congregational and Presbyterian churches combined they decides to join the The Evangelical Fellowship of Congregational Churches ( E. F. C. C.

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 ).

A small number of Boers may also be members of Baptist, Pentecostal or Lutheran Churches.

Churches have their own process of who may use various religious titles.

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 ".

The ancient Churches, such as the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox exclude non-members from Communion under normal circumstances, though the Catholics may allow exceptions, e. g., for non-members in danger of death who share their faith in the reality of the Eucharist and who are unable to have access to a minister of their own community.

Churches and religious associations which have expressed their will to become members of the Council may be admitted as " Provisional Members " for a period of time ( generally two or four years ), until the Council decides that they have shown their organizational stability, affinity with the ICUU principles and commitment to deserve becoming Full Members of the Council.

Married men may become priests in Eastern Orthodoxy and the Eastern Catholic Churches, but in neither case may they marry after ordination, even if they become widowed.

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.

Churches designated as papal basilicas, in particular, possess a papal throne and a papal high altar, at which no one may celebrate Mass without the pope's permission.

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.

Churches and denominations may vary in which metaphor or explanation they consider most accurately fits into their theological perspective ; however all Christians emphasize that Jesus is the Saviour of the world and through his death the sins of mankind have been forgiven.

Churches belonging to the Church of England ( unless for special reasons another flag is flown by custom ) may fly St George's Cross.

Some Eastern Churches of the Western rite may provide still other different lists of Saint Valentines.

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.

Churches belonging to the Church of England ( unless for special reasons another flag is flown by custom ) may fly the St George's Cross.

Devotion to the Sacred Heart may be found in some Eastern Catholic Churches, but is a contentious issue.

The penitent may also choose to confess face to face, and this is the tradition in some Eastern Catholic Churches.

The reason the Eastern Churches perform Chrismation immediately after Baptism is so that the newly baptized may receive Holy Communion, which is commonly given to infants as well as adults.

Churches for the worship of God are to be erected and separated from all unhallowed, worldly, and common uses, that men may reverence the Majesty of God and show forth greater devotion and humility in His service.

Churches of Christ have maintained a more exclusive stance, although the lack of a " clearinghouse " for determining acceptable doctrine has led to myriad manifestations that the movement may credit as heresy.

Churches, courtrooms, legislatures, and meeting halls may identify individual rows, seats or sections but do not normally assign aisle numbers or display signs regarding aisles.

In some Christian churches, such as the Latin Rite Catholic Church and some Eastern Catholic Churches, priests and bishops must as a rule remain unmarried, while in others, such as the Eastern Orthodox Church, the churches of Oriental Orthodoxy and some of the Eastern Catholic Churches, married men may be ordained as deacons or priests, but may not remarry if their wife dies.

All Christian monasticism stems, either directly or indirectly, from the Egyptian example: Saint Basil the Great Archbishop of Caesaria of Cappadocia, founder and organizer of the monastic movement in Asia Minor, visited Egypt around AD 357 and his rule is followed by the Eastern Orthodox Churches ; Saint Jerome who translated the Bible into Latin, came to Egypt, while en route to Jerusalem, around AD 400 and left details of his experiences in his letters ; Benedict founded the Benedictine Order in the 6th century on the model of Saint Pachomius, but in a stricter form.

The Lutheran Churches commemorate the two saints either on 14 February or 11 May.

Ultramontanism is not recognised by either Eastern or Oriental Orthodox churches, which see it as unsupported by Scripture or Tradition ; these Churches regard the Pope as having been primus inter pares when the two churches were in communion, and do not recognize the doctrines of infallibility or the Pope's alleged jurisdiction over patriarchates or autocephalous Churches other than that of Rome, except insofar as this is part of the concept of primus inter pares

At a meeting in Balamand, Lebanon in June 1993, the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church declared that these initiatives that " led to the union of certain communities with the See of Rome and brought with them, as a consequence, the breaking of communion with their Mother Churches of the East … took place not without the interference of extra-ecclesial interests "; and that what has been called " uniatism " " can no longer be accepted either as a method to be followed nor as a model of the unity our Churches are seeking " ( section 12 ).

Eastern Catholic Churches either follow the same rules as the Latin Church or require celibacy only for bishops.

In the United States the Spiritualist churches are primarily affiliated either with the National Spiritualist Association of Churches or the loosely allied group of denominations known as the spiritual church movement ; in the U. K. the predominant organization is the Spiritualists ' National Union, founded in 1890.

Thus, the Commission concluded that the " missionary apostolate ... which has been called ' uniatism ', can no longer be accepted either as a method to be followed nor as a model of the unity our Churches are seeking.

Most of the latter congregations became members of either the CCCC ( mentioned above ) or the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches.

Eastern Catholic Churches either follow the same rules as the Latin Church or require celibacy only for bishops.

Churches and chapels were closed, and a rounding up of Czechs was conducted, including the whole village of Lidice, whose inhabitants were either killed or sent to forced labor camps.

Relationships between the Matthewites and GOC are warming but the Makarians are not accepted by either of these Orthodox Churches.

The confession of faith of the Canadian Conference of Mennonite Brethren Churches ( held in common with the US Conference ) reveals the churches accept God in three persons ; the divinity, humanity, virgin birth, atonement, resurrection, ascension, and return of Jesus ; the Bible as the inspired word of God ; the fall of humankind and salvation through the atoning work of Christ ; the Lord's Day ( Sunday ) as a day of worship ; and the resurrection of all people, either to eternal punishment or eternal life with God.

Most churches in the fellowship are either " Bible Churches " or " Baptist Churches ".

Each diocese of the Episcopal Church, as well as the Navajoland Area Mission and the Convocation of Episcopal Churches in Europe, are entitled to representation in the House of Deputies by four clergy deputies, either presbyters or deacons, canonically resident in the diocese and four lay deputies who are confirmed communicants in good standing.

At a meeting in Balamand, Lebanon in June 1993, the Joint International Commission for the Theological Dialogue between the Roman Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church the delegates of the Eastern Orthodox Churches declared "... and that what has been called ' uniatism ' can no longer be accepted either as a method to be followed nor as a model of the unity our Churches are seeking " ( section 12 of the document ).

Trends are visible, however, as most united and uniting churches have one or more predecessors with heritage in the Reformed tradition ( either Presbyterian, Congregationalist, or both ) and many are members of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.

Churches are organized into either geographical or cultural districts.

In the Eastern Orthodox Churches and the Eastern Catholic Churches, the term " consecration " can refer to either the Sacred Mystery ( Sacrament ) of Cheirotonea ( Ordination through laying on of hands ) of a Bishop, or the sanctification and solemn dedication of a church building.

Churches were common in Palmares partly because Angolans were frequently Christianized, either from the Portuguese colony or from the Kingdom of Kongo, which was a Christian colonized country at that time.