Congregations that belong to associations and conventions are still independently governed.

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.

Congregations of the Christian Church are self-governing in the tradition of congregational polity.

Congregations and ministries of the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) are free to use the chalice in publications, web sites and other media.

* The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, known as the Orthodox Union, or " OU ", and the Rabbinical Council of America, " RCA " are organizations that represent Modern Orthodox Judaism, a large segment of Orthodoxy in the United States and Canada.

The Roman Congregations are a type of dicastery ( department with a jurisdiction ) of the Roman Curia, the central administrative organism of the Catholic Church.

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.

* The Messianic Jewish Rabbinical Council, many of whose members are affiliated with the Union of Messianic Jewish Congregations, has published its standards of Messianic Torah observance.

* The largest and oldest are the Orthodox Union ( Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America ), which sponsors youth groups, kashrut supervision, and many other activities and its rabbinic counterpart, the Rabbinical Council of America ( RCA ).

Congregations are served by full-time professional clergy.

Congregations, through the Church Meeting, are responsible for the selection ( issue of a " call ") of ministers to fill vacancies.

The Moravian Church and the Federation of Evangelical Reformed Congregations are associate members.

Congregations that do not wish to call these persons to ordained ministry are not required by these policy changes to do so.

Congregations are encouraged to contribute to a specific fund for that purpose.

Congregations are usually based on geographical area or language spoken, and may have as few as ten or as many as two hundred members.

Congregations are governed by local elders, who are assisted by ministerial servants.

The Secretary of State, the prefects of the Congregations of the Roman Curia, the Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church, the Vicar General of Rome, and the Patriarchs of Venice and Lisbon, are usually Cardinals, with few, generally temporary, exceptions.

* Congregations who do not have a locally residing elder are assigned a " Counseling Elder " by the national elder body.

Congregations outside of the established districts are included under National Missions ( Bishop Abel F. Aguilar ).

Smaller related denominations are the Canadian and American Reformed Churches, the Free Reformed Churches of North America ( FRC ), the Heritage Reformed Congregations ( HRC ), the Netherlands Reformed Congregations ( NRC ), the Protestant Reformed Churches in America ( PRC ), and the United Reformed Churches in North America ( URC ).

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 ).

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.

" Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth ( United Kingdom )

* 1948 – Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth

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.

* Immanuel Jakobovits, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, London

In 1966, Immanuel Jakobovits, who later became Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of Britain and the Commonwealth, disputed the veracity of Shahak's story, and alleged that when challenged to substantiate his claim, Shahak eventually had been forced to admit that the Orthodox Jew he claimed to have witnessed " simply did not exist.

Sir Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, summarized: " it is not that God forgives, while human beings do not.

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, Glenmary Research Center

On October 29, 44 leading clergymen, including Dean Francis B. Sayre, Jr. of Washington National Cathedral, United Presbyterian Church Leader Eugene Carson Blake, Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, American Hebrew Congregations President Maurice Eisendrauth, and theologians Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, issued a letter commenting on the Jenkins affair: "" We see the Jenkins episode as a case of human weakness.

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, Glenmary Research Center

Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000

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.

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, Glenmary Research Center

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States ( 2000 ), Glenmary Research Center

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, Glenmary Research Center

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, 2000, Glenmary Research Center

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States ( 2000 ), Glenmary Research Center

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States ( 2000 ), Glenmary Research Center

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States ( 2000 ), Glenmary Research Center

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.

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States ( 2000 ), Glenmary Research Center

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States ( 2000 ), Glenmary Research Center

The most successful WordAlone outgrowth is Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ, a post-denominational association of 724 congregations in ten countries, with 656 of them in the United States.

The Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations representing over 1000 Unitarian Universalist congregations in the United States supports the measure.

The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America ( UOJCA ), more popularly known as the Orthodox Union ( OU ), is one of the oldest Orthodox Jewish organizations in the United States.

Congregations are located in several States and countries.

Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ ( LCMC ) is an association of Lutheran congregations in the United States.

While the chief end of the Congregations of Cardinals was to assist the sovereign pontiff in the administration of the affairs of the Church, some of these congregations were created to assist in the administration of the temporal States of the Holy See.