Later on His Holiness the Dalai Lama would regard Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche as his principal teacher in the Nyingma tradition and of Dzogchen.

Recently the chief lamas of other of the spiritual traditions of Tibet, including the Sakya Trizin ( head of the Sakya sa skya school ), the Karmapa ( head of the Karma Kagyu kar ma bka ' brgyud school ), and the Menri Trizin ( head of Bon ) have been styled in English " His Holiness ", as has the senior lama of the Nyingma ( Tibetan rnying ma ) school selected to be its principal representative.

Darrow then details her " contingency plan " to eliminate the Pope: If His Holiness is not yet terminated at the end of Act I, Whitey Jackson will open fire from one of the auditorium's two organ bays (" He will also open fire should the Pope unexpectedly leave his seat, or if the police arrive in the auditorium ," Darrow explains ).

It was the seat of the Coptic Pope, His Holiness Pope Shenouda III, Pope and Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark.

1999 when Edgy produced a CD for the Office of Tibet – a compilation of His Holiness ' symposia in Hawaii, with rare traditional Tibetan music performed by artists living in exile around the world, Hawaiian chants, and remarks by the late Reverend Abraham Akaka and kumu hula John Lake.

The storyline included " Tibetan monks paying their last respects to the previous Dalai Lama, as well as the 1949 Chinese invasion and the exile of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama .".

His Holiness Abune Paulos died in August 2012 and transitionally a new pope is elected until an election is made next year.

The current Dalai Lama is often called " His Holiness " ( HH ) by Westerners ( by analogy with the Pope ), although this does not translate to a Tibetan title.

Most scholars see chapters 1 – 16 ( the Priestly code ) and chapters 17 – 26 ( the Holiness code ) as the work of two related schools, but while the Holiness material employs the same technical terms as the Priestly code, it broadens their meaning from pure ritual to the theological and moral, turning the ritual of the Priestly code into a model for the relationship of Israel to God: as the tabernacle is made holy by the presence of the Lord and kept apart from uncleanliness, so He will dwell among Israel when Israel is purified ( made holy ) and separated from other peoples.

" Holiness in ancient Israel was not the same thing it is to us: it might be regarded as the " god-ness " of God, an invisible but physical and potentially dangerous force.

This is followed by rules of clean and unclean ( Leviticus 11 – 15 ), which includes the laws of slaughter and animals permissible to eat ( see also: Kashrut ), the Day of Atonement ( Leviticus 16 ), and various moral and ritual laws sometimes called the Holiness Code ( Leviticus 17 – 26 ).

The United Methodist Church ( UMC ) is also a member of the Wesleyan Holiness Consortium, which seeks to reconceive and promote Biblical holiness in today's Church.

He stated that there is no evidence of it being an historical occurrence but that ' Nobody can deny its factual occurrence in the Bay ' ah where millions of people are initiated at the hand of one man simultaneously in every continent in diverse languages through the power of the Spirit of Holiness.

He also hosted the Australian Conservation Foundation ’ s Spirituality and Sustainability Forum with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and is an ambassador and former board member of the Royal Botanic Gardens Foundation, Sydney.

The Karmapa ( officially His Holiness the Gyalwa Karmapa, sometimes spelled Gyalwang Karmapa ) is the head of the Karma Kagyu, the largest sub-school of the Kagyupa ( Tibetan Bka ' brgyud ), itself one of the four major schools of Tibetan Buddhism.

His Easter Week sermon, " A Call to Holiness ," delivered at the cathedral of Port-au-Prince and later broadcast throughout Haiti, proclaimed, " The path of those Haitians who reject the regime is the path of righteousness and love.

* Sanctification or Holiness, the act of God's grace whereby we are made holy, is the second definite work and is subsequent to justification.

The city is named for Central Holiness University.

There is also a Pilgrim Holiness Church which was established in 1930, and present pastor is Rev.

Snake handling or serpent handling is a religious ritual in a small number of Pentecostal churches in the U. S., usually characterized as rural and part of the Holiness movement.

The name Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church refers to St. Thomas Christians of India that come under the Catholicate of the East whose Supreme Head is His Holiness The Catholicos of the East and Malankara Metropolitan, with its headquarters at Devalokam, Kottayam, Kerala, India.

An Archon is an honoree by His All Holiness the Ecumenical Patriarch, for his outstanding service to the Church, and a well-known, distinguished, and well-respected leader of the Orthodox Church ( at large ).

The Church of God in Christ ( COGIC ) is a Pentecostal Holiness Christian denomination with a predominantly African-American membership.

As a Holiness church of the Wesleyan tradition, COGIC believes that Sanctification is " that gracious and continuous operation of the Holy Ghost, by which He delivers the justified sinner from the pollution of sin, renews his whole nature in the image of God and enables him to perform good works ".

Founded as the Center for Discovery and New Life in 1985, and then given to His Holiness Penor Rinpoche and renamed by him in 1987, KPC was Penor Rinpoche's first Dharma Center in the US.

* Pentecostal Holiness Church Ling Kwong Bradbury Centre for the Blind

In 2007, the shrine was declared as a Georgian Pilgrim Centre of the East by His Holiness Baselious Didymus-I, who is Catholicos of the East.

when his Holiness Pope John 23, first called for an Ecumenical Council, and at the same time voiced his yearning for Christian unity, the enthusiasm among Catholic and Protestant ecumenicists was immediate.

Dickson was the first person to make a film for a Pope, and at the time his camera was blessed by His Holiness Leo XIII.

The king of Spain wrote to his ambassador at Rome " that His Holiness had hitherto played a double game and that all his zeal to drive the French from Italy had been only a mask "; this reproach seemed to receive some confirmation when Leo held a secret conference with Francis at Bologna in December 1515.

Illuminated signs, possibly some of the oldest surviving of that type, flanking the organ's pipework, proclaim " Holiness to the Lord " and " So be ye holy ," a reflection of the emphasis at camp meetings.

On October 13, 1908, several Holiness Christian groups came together and formed the Church of the Nazarene at Pilot Point.

In 1998, snake-handling evangelist John Wayne " Punkin " Brown died after being bitten by a timber rattler at the Rock House Holiness Church in rural northeastern Alabama.

He was extremely popular at court, and in 1783, on the death of Archbishop Cornwallis, the king pressed him to accept the primacy, but Hurd, who was known, says Madame d ' Arblay, as " The Beauty of Holiness ,” declined it as a charge not suited to his temper and talents, and much too heavy for him to sustain.

His Holiness established the first Diocese in the lands of immigration for the Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate in 1991, the Diocese of Birmingham ; and appointed the general bishop for the United Kingdom at the time, H. G.

The growth of COGIC at the time of Bishop Mason's death gives credence to his untiring efforts to teach and preach the Pentecostal-Holiness message and his exceptional leadership in building a comprehensive organization fulfilling the prophetic vision of COGIC that Holiness would cover the Earth.

Spurling often worshiped with the small fellowship and was the driving force behind its 1902 decision to organize into a church, called the Holiness Church at Camp Creek.

In April 1908 Bresee accepted Edgar P. Ellyson, president of the Holiness University of Texas of Peniel, Texas, his wife, Mary Emily Ellyson ( 1869 – 1943 ), and many leaders and members of the Holiness Association of Texas into the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, with Emily Ellyson elected pastor of the new congregation at Peniel.

At the Second General Assembly held at Pilot Point, Texas, the Holiness Church of Christ, located in the southern United States, merged with the Pentecostal Nazarenes.

The Holiness Church of Christ itself was the merger of the New Testament Church of Christ founded in July 1894 at Milan, Tennessee by R. L.

Harris, but soon led by his widow Mary Lee Cagle, and a group ( also called the Holiness Church of Christ ), that resulted in November 1904 at Rising Star, Texas from the prior merger of The Holiness Church ( founded in 1888 in Texas ) and the Independent Holiness Church ( formed at Van Alstyne, Texas in 1901, and led by Charles B. Jernigan and J. B. Chapman ).