** Congregationalist polity

* Congregationalist polity

* Congregationalist polity

* Congregationalist polity, e. g. Congregationalist churches

* Congregationalist polity

* Congregationalist polity

* Congregationalist polity

* Congregationalist polity, a form of church governance based on the local congregation

" This is not to say that the Orthodox Church has a Congregationalist polity ; on the contrary, the local priest functions as the " hands " of the bishop, and must receive from the bishop an antimension and chrism before he is permitted to celebrate any of the Sacred Mysteries ( sacraments ) within the diocese.

In fact, rather than being Presbyterian in polity, the church was what might be called an " independent " or " strict " Congregationalist body.

* The Savoy Declaration of 1658 which was a modification of the Westminster Confession to suit Congregationalist polity ;

* Congregationalist polity

In addition to salaried circuit riders ( who were paid just over one-quarter what salaried Congregationalist ministers earned at the time ), there were also unsalaried local ministers who held full-time jobs outside the church ; class leaders who conducted weekly small groups where members were mutually accountable for their practice of Christian piety ; and stewards who often undertook administrative duties.

While the sisters were raised in a Universalist household and held political and religious views that were liberal and reformist, they often attended Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist services and were friendly with ministers of all these denominations and others.

While she and her sister were raised in a Universalist household and held political and religious views that were liberal and reformist, they often attended Methodist, Presbyterian, and Congregationalist services and were friendly with ministers of all these denominations and others.

Among those major Protestant Christian traditions that employ congregationalism are those Congregational Churches known by the " Congregationalist " name that descended from the Anglo-American Puritan movement of the 17th century, the Baptist churches, and most of the groups brought about by the Anabaptist movement in Germany that immigrated to the U. S. in the late 18th century.

The English Congregationalist built a church in Masons Road, now known as West Street-Bethel Chapel.

Michael Daniel Jones ( 2 March 1822 – 2 December 1898 ) was a Welsh Congregationalist minister and principal of a theological college, but is best remembered as a founder of the Welsh settlement in Patagonia known as Y Wladfa and as one of the fathers of modern Welsh nationalism.

Helenard Joe Hendrickse ( popularly known as Allan Hendrickse ; 22 October 1927 — 16 March 2005 ) was a South African politician, Congregationalist minister, and teacher.

Fish ’ s congregation culminated in the departure of another group that formed a “ Strict Congregationalist Church ” in 1746 more than a mile west of The Village ( During 1817-27 the Congregationalist and Strict Congregationalist churches reunited and built a common church, which is the current location of the town ‘ s Congregationalist Church ).

As an early day minister, businessman and civic leader, Dixon Durant is credited with pastorates in local Presbyterian, Congregationalist and Methodist churches.

Another church in the town is Christ Church, now United Reformed Church, but was formerly Congregationalist.

The history of Congregational churches in the United States is closely intertwined with that of American Presbyterianism, especially in New England where Congregationalist influence spilled over into Presbyterian churches farther west.

* Congregationalism – Form of governance used in Congregationalist, Baptist, and Pentecostal churches in which each congregation is self-governing and independent of all others.

This Congregationalist meetinghouse was founded in North Square, across the street from what is now called Paul Revere's house.

Flanders had a strict Congregationalist religious beginning, which evolved with his experience into a belief in “ moral law .” He felt that “ recognition of moral law is as much a necessary requirement of social achievement as physical law is of material advancement .” In Flanders ’ s view, moral law required honesty, compassion, responsibility, cooperation, humility, and wisdom — values that all cultures hold in common.

Although a devout Congregationalist, he is buried in the grounds of a Church of England church, St. Mary's, in the Handsworth district of Birmingham, alongside his wife, who died in 1908.

John was a Congregationalist missionary who wrote, " There is but one church, and all who are born of God are members of it.

* 21 December 1795-Robert Moffat, Scottish Congregationalist missionary, is born in Ormiston, East Lothian, Scotland

He is considered to be one of the most eminent English Congregationalist preachers of Regency England ; one of the first Independents or Congregationalists to articulate the Great Awakening or Religious Revival championed by George Whitfield and John Wesley.

Contrary to a popular assumption, it is not a " continuing Methodist Church ," formed as a result of the merger in 1977 of Congregationalist, Methodist and Presbyterian congregations to form the Uniting Church in Australia.

The FIEC is in the Independent / Congregationalist tradition, which traces its roots back to separatists, such as Robert Browne in the time of Elizabeth I and James I of England.

* Birthplace of the Scottish Congregationalist missionary Robert Moffat ( December 21, 1795-August 9, 1883 ); a memorial is erected in his name.

Langdon Towne is a young Congregationalist resident of Kittery, Maine, in love with Elizabeth Browne, the youngest daughter of Anglican minister Rev.

Reverend John Curwen ( 1816 – 1880 ) was an English Congregationalist minister, and founder of the Tonic sol-fa system of music education.

Although he was an active Congregationalist, Heales was an opponent of the clause in the Victorian Constitution which provided for state funding for religion, and he favoured a unified secular education system.

A National Education League led by prominent Congregationalist George Randell, led the cause against this, arguing that it was an obstacle to the creation of an efficient education system.

Bates originally wrote the words as a poem, Pikes Peak, first published in the Fourth of July edition of the church periodical The Congregationalist in 1895.

In response, Congregationalist church officials issued a pastoral letter prohibiting the use of the pulpit for abolitionist speeches, especially speeches made by women.

In 1838, Stone was a member of a Congregationalist church in West Brookfield.

He then moved to Bury St Edmunds, where he lectured for ten years, the later Congregationalist Jeremiah Burroughs was another preacher in the town He retired when his bishop Matthew Wren insisted on the observance of certain ceremonial articles: Calamy refused to read out the Book of Sports in his church.

" Sheldon's novel grew out of a series of sermons he delivered in his Congregationalist church in Topeka, Kansas.

Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practising Congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation independently and autonomously runs its own affairs.

He became very influential in the development of Congregationalist theology and ideas of church government.

Having been raised a Methodist, he soon left that church to become a Congregationalist.

The first Congregationalist church building in Kempston was opened in the High Street in 1813.

Major forms of church government include episcopal governance ( Anglican, Catholic, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy ) presbyterian governance and congregational governance ( Baptist, Pentecostal, Congregationalist, charismatic, and other Protestant denominations ).

Many Baptist and Congregationalist theologians accept the local sense as the only valid application of the term church.

He was also not part of the province's Congregationalist orthodoxy, attending an Anglican church and reportedly dabbling with deist views.

The Puritans, who believed in Congregationalist church governance, established town meetings In New England when they established the various New England colonies.

Robert William Dale ( 1 December 1829 – 13 March 1895 ) was an English Congregationalist ( Nonconformist ) church leader.

When he moved to London he attended worship in an Independent church ( Congregationalist ).

She was ordained by a church belonging to the Congregationalist Church.

By 1800, all but one Congregationalist church in Boston had Unitarian preachers teaching the strict unity of God, the subordinate nature of Christ, and salvation by character.