* James " Father Jimmy " Tompkins, Roman Catholic priest, helped found the Co-operative Antigonish Movement at St. Francis Xavier University

Father Jimmy Tompkins helped to pioneer this concept at Tompkinsville at Reserve Mines on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia.

* Father Jimmy Tompkins " Knowledge for the People -- a Call to St. Francis Xavier College " 1921

Dr. Moses Coady and Father Jimmy Tompkins.

Father James ( Jimmy ) Tompkins and Dr. Moses Coady were key organizers in Nova Scotia of the first building co-operatives.

In 1936, Father Tompkins helped found the first self-help building co-operative in North America near Glace Bay ( Reserve Mines ), Nova Scotia, Canada.

The Antigonish Movement which started in the 1920s in Nova Scotia, through the work of Doctor Moses Coady and Father James Tompkins, has been particularly influential in the subsequent expansion of community economic development work across Canada.

Father James John " Jimmy " Tompkins ( 7 September 1870 – 5 May 1953 ) was a Roman Catholic priest who founded the Antigonish Movement, a progressive effort that incorporated adult education, cooperatives and rural community development to aid the fishing and mining communities of northern and eastern Nova Scotia, Canada.

Father Tompkins believed in the emancipating power of education and sought to improve economic conditions through study groups and co-operative action.

The Antigonish Movement was eventually institutionalized in the form of the Extension Department at St. Francis Xavier, which was headed by Tompkins ' double-cousin Father Moses Coady and which included Father ( Dr .) Hugh MacPherson, A. B.

* Jim Lotz and Michael R. Welton, Father Jimmy: Life and Times of Father Jimmy Tompkins ( 1997 ), ISBN 1-895415-23-3

* George Boyle, Father Tompkins of Nova Scotia ( 1953 )

* Father Jimmy Tompkins in Adult Educators You Should Know, National-Louis University

* Fraught with Wonderful Possibilities: Father Jimmy Tompkins and the Struggle for a Catholic Progressivism, 1902-1922, Michael R. Welton, PhD

The establishment, by the Holy Father, of a permanent Secretariat for Christian Unity in 1960 was the most dramatic mark of this concern.

The resultant town, platted in 1847 and named for the patron of Father Galtier's mission, St. Paul, was to become an important center of the fur trade and was to take on a new interest for those Selkirkers who remained at Red River.

He was about to leave them, to depart from this world, and return to His Father in Heaven.

I knelt, just for decency I thought at the time, but found myself whispering, `` Our Father which Art in Heaven '' And it was only after that that something unlocked in me and I felt a grief.

Another character, Father Paneloux, uses the plague as an opportunity to advance his stature in the town by suggesting that the plague was an act of God punishing the citizens ' sinful nature.

The Arian concept of Christ is that the Son of God did not always exist, but was created by — and is therefore distinct from — God the Father.

Arians taught that the pre-incarnate Jesus was a divine being created by ( and therefore inferior to ) God the Father at some point, before which the Son did not exist.

The letter of Auxentius, a 4th-century Arian bishop of Milan, regarding the missionary Ulfilas, gives the clearest picture of Arian beliefs on the nature of the Trinity: God the Father (" unbegotten "), always existing, was separate from the lesser Jesus Christ (" only-begotten "), born before time began and creator of the world.

The Father, working through the Son, created the Holy Spirit, who was subservient to the Son as the Son was to the Father.

The Father was seen as " the only true God ".

In 321, Arius was denounced by a synod at Alexandria for teaching a heterodox view of the relationship of Jesus to God the Father.

Arius taught that Jesus Christ was divine and was sent to earth for the salvation of mankind but that Jesus Christ was not equal to the Father ( infinite, primordial origin ) and to the Holy Spirit ( giver of life ).

Under Arianism, Christ was instead not consubstantial with God the Father since both the Father and the Son under Arius were made of " like " essence or being ( see homoiousia ) but not of the same essence or being ( see homoousia ).

According to the teaching of Arius, the preexistent Logos and thus the incarnate Jesus Christ was a created being ; that only the Son was directly created and begotten by God the Father, before ages, but was of a distinct, though similar, essence or substance from the Creator ; his opponents argued that this would make Jesus less than God, and that this was heretical.

Much of the distinction between the differing factions was over the phrasing that Christ expressed in the New Testament to express submission to God the Father.

He declares the pope to be: " his Lord and Father in Christ ", " The Chosen Watchman ", " The Prelate most dear to all the Faithful ", " The most beautiful Head of all the Churches of the whole of Europe ", " Pastor of Pastors ", " The Highest ", " The First ", " The First Pastor, set higher than all mortals ", " Raised near into all the Celestial Beings ", " Prince of the Leaders ", " His Father ", " His immediate Patron ", " The Steersman ", " The Pilot of the Spiritual Ship " ( Allnatt, " Cathedra Petri ", 106 ).

* Address of the Great Council of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America 11-13 March 1969, Concerning The Canonization of the Spiritual Father Herman of Alaska

* Elder Iakovos, Spiritual Father of St. David's Monastery in Euboea

The Very Reverend Father Theodore Poplis, Coordinator of Spiritual Services at Chicago's St. Joseph Hospital and a priest of the Archdiocese of Chicago, will also assume duties as the first Rector of the National Shrine, effective Saturday,

* 2005: John Paul The Great: Remembering a Spiritual Father ( ISBN 0-670-03748-6 )

Geshe Kelsang Gyatso's " Spiritual Father " was the great Gelugpa Master Kyabje Trijang Dorjechang ( 1900-1981 CE ), who was also the " root guru " of the current Dalai Lama.

The Peace Mission views its church services as a great ' Spiritual Democracy ' with all members, male, female, child, adult, senior, black or white and all visitors as well, given free rein, within the bonds of the respect of all others to speak, to stand and to testify to the goodness and power of " Father " and to ' Thank Him '.

A document entitled Protocols & Requirements Between Spiritual Father & His Spiritual Sons contains the oath:

The Russian original, or a copy of it, was present at a Mount Athos monastery in Greece in the 19th century, and was first published in Kazan in 1884, under the Russian title that translates as " Candid Narratives of a Pilgrim to His Spiritual Father.

In 1924, he joined the staff of the Jesuit Milltown Park Institute in Dublin as Professor of Church History, Lecturer in Sociology, and later, Spiritual Father.

O ' Rahilly's writings include: Father William Doyle, S. J .- a Spiritual Study, Electromagnetic Theory, Money, The Burial of Christ, Religion and Science, Aquinas versus Marx, Moral Principles, Social Principles, The Family at Bethany and Gospel Meditations.

* Reverend Father Rodel Balagtas, another loyal servant of God who serves as parish priest of the Catholic community in Valinda, California and officiates as Spiritual Director of Club Minalin USA.