Congregations are generally overseen by a plurality of elders ( also known in some congregations as shepherds, bishops, or pastors ) who are sometimes assisted in the administration of various works by deacons.

Another major step: The Federation of Reconstructionist Congregations has also developed educational programs that teach the full acceptance of lesbians, as well as rituals that affirm lesbian relationships.

Set up by Pope John Paul II by a motu proprio of 15 January 1993, it is presided over by the Cardinal Secretary of State and includes also the Secretary and the Undersecretary for Relations with States, and the Secretaries of the Congregations for the Eastern Churches, for the Clergy, and for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, and of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.

Law is also a member of the Congregations for the Oriental Churches, the Clergy, Divine Worship and Discipline of the Sacraments, Evangelisation of Peoples, Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, Catholic Education, Bishops as well as the Pontifical Council for the Family.

Congregations were permitted to enact female suffrage within Missouri Synod congregations in 1969, and it was affirmed at the Synod's 2004 convention that women may also " serve in humanly established offices " as long as those offices do not include any of the " distinctive functions of the pastoral office.

There is also a Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in the town which is shared by Bishopbriggs and Kirkintilloch Congregations.

Congregations may also sing other, popular songs during the dancing.

Several Protestant denominations in North America presently honor the Catechism officially: the Presbyterian Church in America, the Christian Reformed Church, the United Reformed Churches, the Presbyterian Church ( USA ), the Reformed Church in America, the United Church of Christ ( a successor to the German Reformed churches ), the Reformed Church in the United States ( also of German Reformed heritage ), the Free Reformed Churches of North America, the Heritage Reformed Congregations, the Canadian and American Reformed Churches, and several other Reformed churches of Dutch origin around the world.

He was also influential in the German Baptist confession of faith issued in 1847, and the organization of the Union of Baptist Congregations in 1849.

Kaplan was also involved in Jewish affairs and was a member of the Board of Trustees of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

: The State also recognises the Church of Ireland, the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, the Methodist Church in Ireland, the Religious Society of Friends in Ireland, as well as the Jewish Congregations and the other religious denominations existing in Ireland at the date of the coming into operation of this Constitution.

He also held membership in the Congregations for the Sacraments, for Sacred Rites, for the Oriental Church, and for the Propagation of Faith in the Roman Curia, and was once director of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America.

The Congregations also fix the date and time of the commencement of the conclave.

* Single Brethren's and Single Sisters ' Houses: In the old original Settlement Congregations of Europe, Britain and the US, there were separate Houses caring for the spiritual and also temporal welfare of the Choirs of Single Brethren, Single Sisters, Widows.

Perhaps more controversially, WordAlone also started a body called Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ ( LCMC ) which is now legally and organizationally separate from WordAlone though there is some cooperation between the two.

Hence also a natural division into executive cases, assigned to the offices ( officia ), judicial cases, reserved to the tribunals, and administrative cases, committed to the Roman Congregations.

Congregations in the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man, Malta and Gibraltar also form part of the British Methodist Church.

While teaching at the Pontifical Urbaniana University from 1919 to 1936, Traglia was also an official of the Sacred Congregations of Seminaries and Universities and of the Propagation of the Faith from 1927 to 1930.

* Seeking God ’ s transformation of 1, 000 existing Congregations in ways that will renew their witness.

Depending on their status within various Messianic Jewish groups, such as the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations, an allowance for formal conversion is made based on their understanding that Messianic converts are not automatically considered Jewish.

Congregations such as media outlets, citizen societies, and chambers of commerce offered their support for these students.

Congregations hold legal title to their church buildings and other property, and call ( hire ) and dismiss their own clergy.

Congregations typically meet in their Kingdom Halls two days each week for meetings for worship.

* Congregations with a strong view of church tradition or church authority ( common in churches with a strong hierarchical structure ) will want to know how their denomination has traditionally interpreted the passage.

* Congregations with a strong belief in personal experience ( common in the charismatic and Pentecostal circles ) will want to understand how the passage relates to their experiences.

The Congregations of women who trace their origins to Father Moreau are the Marianites of Holy Cross ( Le Mans, France ), the Sisters of the Holy Cross, ( Notre Dame, Indiana ), and the Sisters of Holy Cross, ( Montreal, Canada ).

Along with most Bailey Colleges, St Chad's students wear their college gowns to Formal Hall, Matriculation, College Congregations and other academic or formal events.

Bishops have, in virtue of their God-given powers, full authority within their dioceses in all matters of dispensation, patronage and the like ; papal bulls, briefs, etc., and the decrees of the Roman Congregations are only of binding force in each diocese when sanctioned by the bishop ; nunciatures, as hitherto conceived, are to cease ; the oath of allegiance to the pope demanded of bishops since Gregory VII's time is to be altered so as to bring it into conformity with episcopal rights ; annates and the fees payable for the pallium and confirmation are to be lowered and, in the event of the palhum or confirmation being refused, German archbishops and bishops are to be free to exercise their office under the protection of the emperor ; with the Church tribunals of first and second instance ( episcopal and metropolitan ) the nuncios at Cologne are not to interfere, and, though appeal to Rome is allowed under certain national safe-guards, the opinion is expressed that it would be better to set up in each archdiocese a final court of appeal representing the provincial synod ; finally the emperor is prayed to use his influence with the pope to secure the assembly of a national council in order to remove the grievances left unredressed by the council of Trent.

Congregations appoint pastors, elect governing boards, and manage their own local affairs.

Congregations, however, retained their local autonomy and these groups were legally separate from the congregations.

Her most recent book, Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and their Partners ( University of California Press, 2005 ), describes the common patterns that shape the work of American's diverse communities of faith.

Pillars of Faith: American Congregations and their Partners ( University of California Press, 2005 ).

Of these the most important are, without doubt, the Roman Congregations ( Sacræ Cardinalium Congregationes ), as is evident from the mere consideration of the dignity of their membership, comprising cardinals who are officially the chief collaborators of the sovereign pontiff in the administration of the affairs of the Universal Church, though Cardinals have not always participated in the administration of ecclesiastical affairs in the same way.

It should not be confused with " The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America " ( see above ) which is a separate organization.

Lord Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, distinguishes between tolerance and multiculturalism, and says that the Netherlands is a tolerant, rather than multicultural, society.

It would remain the standard translation in Protestant churches for more than three centuries and still is used in some sister churches of the Netherlands Reformed Congregations and similar, smaller denominations.

This explains why some houses ( e. g. Monte Cassino, Subiaco, Saint Paul-outside-the-Walls ( Rome ), Montserrat and Pannonhalma ) have unbroken histories of more than a thousand years while the Congregations to which they belong are more recent.

They have been accepted as religious holidays by the following groups: The Union of Orthodox Congregations and the Rabbinical Council of America ; The United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth ; Reform Judaism ; Conservative Judaism ; Reconstructionist Judaism ; the Union for Traditional Judaism.

* seminaries ( except those regulated by the Congregations for the Evangelization of Peoples and for the Oriental Churches ) and houses of formation of religious and secular institutes ;

Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ), in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America.

His defence of the principle of freedom of association led him, incongruously enough, to support the religious Congregations against Émile Combes.

The Congregations Law of 1875 abolished religious orders, stopped state subsidies to the Catholic Church, and removed religious protections from the Prussian constitution.

Congregations meet for religious services at Kingdom Halls, which may be shared by two or more congregations.

As the spiritual head of the United Synagogue, the largest synagogue body in the UK, he is the Chief Rabbi of the British Orthodox synagogues, but he is not a religious authority for the Federation of Synagogues or the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations or the other movements, Masorti, Reform and Liberal Judaism.

In June 1859, the representatives of the German Catholics and Free Congregations met at Gotha, where a union between the two parties was effected under the name of Bund freireligiöser Gemeinden ( Confederation of free religious congregations ).

The Congregation for Catholic Education ( in Seminaries and Institutes of Study ) ( Congregatio de Institutione Catholica ( de Seminariis atque Studiorum Institutis )) is the Pontifical congregation of the Roman Curia responsible for: ( 1 ) seminaries ( except those regulated by the Congregations for the Evangelization of Peoples and for the Oriental Churches ) and houses of formation of religious and secular institutes ; ( 2 ) universities, faculties, institutes and higher schools of study, either ecclesial or civil dependent on ecclesial persons ; and ( 3 ) schools and educational institutes depending on ecclesiastical authorities.

This legislation has garnered the diverse support of various religious groups including, the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations, the Southern Baptist Convention, the National Council of Churches, the North American Council for Muslim Women, the Sikh American Legal Defense and Education Fund, the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Council on American Islamic Relations, B ' nai B ' rith International, the American Jewish Committee, Agudath Israel of America, the U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops and other groups.

Iglesia ni Cristo, on the other hand, have 9 Local Congregations or Places of Worship in Palayan City alone including the INC Resettlement Areas in 2 Barangays namely Barrio Maligaya and Bagong Buhay where all of the residents are members of this religious organization.

The Jewish educational, philanthropic, and social activities of the city at the time were entrusted to the following institutions: the religious and Hebrew schools, the Synagogue Industrial School, branch lodges of the leading Jewish orders, the Young Men's Hebrew Association, the social and literary clubs, four aid societies, a free loan association, and the Executive Committee of Jewish Congregations.

His first book was Reasons Against the Independent Government of Particular Congregations of 1641, an attack on religious tolerance and the Independent faction as it was coming to importance, and addressed to Parliament.