The Seminary's brief affiliation with the traditional congregations that established the Union of Orthodox Congregations in 1898 was severed due to the Orthodox rejection of the Seminary's academic approach to Jewish learning.

In 1926, the Union of Orthodox Hebrew Congregations was established in Stamford Hill, and this became a magnet for other strictly observant Jews, many fleeing Nazi persecution in the years before World War II.

It was titled L ' Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, et des congregations séculières de l ' un et de l ' autre sexe, qui ont été établis jusqu ' à présent ( The History of the Religious and Military Monastic Orders, and of the Secular Congregations of both Sexes, which have been established up to the Present Day ).

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.

Congregations were soon established.

Congregations were soon afterward established in Salem and Unionville, and these congregations incorporated themselves as the Church of the Blessed Hope in 1888.

This was the Hebrew Union College of Cincinnati, established in 1875 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations, an organization created at that time for the purpose, and mainly at the instance of I. M. Wise.

It was established in 1966 by the Association of Free Lutheran Congregations.

To understand Africville, " you got to know about the church " The Seaview African United Baptist Church was established at Africville in 1849 and joined up with other black Baptist Congregations to make the African Baptist Association in 1854.

In 2006 the Conference of Josephite Leaders ( Central and Federation Congregations ) established the Josephite Leaders Social Action Office, now known as the Josephite Justice Office, to conduct advocacy in the community.

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 are concentrated in the Midwest and Northeast United States.

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.

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 ).

Congregations using the triennial cycle did not necessarily save time over congregations with the annual cycle, since the triennial custom included the practice of reading an Aramaic translation immediately after the Hebrew recitation of each verse.

In 1913, Rabbi Hertz was appointed Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the British Empire ; his rival candidates had included Rabbi Moses Hyamson, Rabbi Lewis Daly, and Rabbi Bernard Drachman.

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.

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 ).

In 1881 he helped to found the National Conference of Unitarian, Liberal Christian, Free Christian, Presbyterian and other Non-Subscribing or Kindred Congregations – “ a triumph, one might say, of Victorian verbosity.

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.

Founded on January 15, 1939 by the Union of American Hebrew Congregations ( now called the Union for Reform Judaism ), the then-titled National Federation of Temple Youth was a program to encourage college students to engage in synagogue life.

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.

* 1988 A landmark study begins: Effective Christian Education: A National Study of Protestant Congregations, funded by the Lilly Endowment.

Whilst members of the Independent Catholic movement take seriously the issue of valid orders, it is highly significant that the relevant Vatican Congregations tend not to respond to petitions from Independent Catholic bishops and clergy who seek to be received into communion with the Holy See, hoping to continue in some sacramental role.

Congregations look for elders who have a mature enough understanding of scripture to enable them to supervise the minister and to teach, as well as to perform " governance " functions.

" Commentary to Leviticus " in The Torah: A Modern Commentary, edited by W. Gunther Plaut, New York: Union of American Hebrew Congregations.

In the years that followed, many of the Independent Christian Church Congregations requested formal withdrawal from the yearbook.

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

The Roman Curia consists of a complex of offices that administer church affairs at the highest level, including the Secretariat of State, nine Congregations, three Tribunals, eleven Pontifical Councils, and seven Pontifical Commissions.

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.

Kehilat Nitzan is affiliated with Masorti Olami, the World Council of Conservative Congregations.

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

His Rule is written as a guide for individual, autonomous communities, and to this day all Benedictine Houses ( and the Congregations in which they have grouped themselves ) remain self-governing.

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.

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.

Congregations call themselves " churches ," " societies ," " fellowships ," " congregations ," or eschew the use of any particular descriptor ( e. g. " Sierra Foothills Unitarian Universalists ").

* The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) of Congregations is the largest association of Unitarian, Universalist, and Unitarian Universalist congregations in the world, and the most well-known.