His son, Lord Downpatrick, converted to Roman Catholicism in 2003 and is the most senior descendant of Sophia to be barred as a result of his own religion.

Adrian Hilton, writing in The Spectator in 2003, defended the Act of Settlement as not " irrational prejudice or blind bigotry " but claimed that it was passed because " the nation had learnt that when a Roman Catholic monarch is upon the throne, religious and civil liberty is lost.

In 2003, together with fellow Roman Catholic MP Edward Leigh, Widdecombe proposed an amendment opposing repeal of Section 28 of the Local Government Act, which banned the promotion of homosexuality by local governments.

* 8 / xi / 03, 8. xi. 03, 8-xi. 03, or 8. XI. 2003 ( using the Roman numeral for the month ) – This is usually confined to handwriting only and is not put into any form of print.

Since 2003, Chelsea have been owned by Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich.

In June 2003, Bates sold Chelsea to Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich for £ 140 million.

For the Roman Catholic Church, this issue was addressed in the 24 July 2003 letter of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which summarized and clarified earlier declarations.

In the later Roman Empire the classical Latin word for horse, equus, was replaced in common parlance by vulgar Latin caballus, sometimes thought to derive from Gaulish caballos .< ref > Xavier Delamarre, entry on caballos, in Dictionnaire de la langue gauloise ( Éditions Errance, 2003 ), p. 96.

* 1979 – Roman Lyashenko, Russian ice hockey player ( d. 2003 )

Ağır Roman has been translated into German ( Kaçan 2003 ), and a movie ( Ağır Roman ), directed by Mustafa Altıoklar ( 1999 ), was based on it.

The ISO published an international standard for the transliteration of Thai into Roman script in September 2003 ( ISO 11940 ).

Time Team covered the action through live link-ups based at a Roman Villa at Dinnington in Somerset-itself a Time Team excavation from 2003.

They have a daughter, Mathilda Ereni ( born October 22, 2003 ), and twins, Adele Georgiana and Roman Stylianos ( born July 10, 2009 ).

The remains of the late Roman fortress Constantia were discovered in 2003.

Wapella supports both a Roman Catholic and a Christian Church, each of which has undergone a magnificent restoration since 2003.

* Carter, Warren, Pontius Pilate: Portraits of a Roman Governor ( 2003 ).

Roman pottery was found in 2003 on Station Road along with a silver Roman signet ring.

He appeared in various films, including The Day of the Jackal ( 1973 ), The Black Windmill ( 1974 ), Richard Loncraine's 1995 version of Richard III, The Scarlet Letter ( 1995 ), Shadowlands ( 1993 ), Elizabeth ( 1998 ), Enigma ( 2001 ), The Gathering Storm ( 2002 ), Love Actually ( 2003 ) and Roman Polanski's Oliver Twist ( 2005 ).

He has earned positive reviews for his portrayals of various individuals: a troubled teen in Gus Van Sant's To Die For ( 1995 ) co-starring with Nicole Kidman, a small-town troublemaker in Oliver Stone's U Turn, Inventing the Abbotts ( 1997 ), the cruel Roman emperor Commodus in Ridley Scott's Gladiator ( 2000 ) ( for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ), a conflicted priest in Quills ( 2000 ), a washed-up baseball player in M. Night Shyamalan's Signs ( 2002 ), the irresolute husband of a superstar-skater in the widely panned It's All About Love in 2003, a lovestruck farmer in Shyamalan's The Village ( 2004 ), a disillusioned cameraman in Terry George's Hotel Rwanda ( 2004 ), and heroic firefighter in Ladder 49 ( 2004 ).

* Severy, Beth, Augustus and the family at the birth of the Roman Empire, Routledge, 2003.

The name " Mercury " is derived from the messenger of the gods of Roman mythology, and during its early years, the Mercury brand was known for performance, which was briefly revived in 2003 with the Mercury Marauder.

Roman Yurievich Lyashenko ( May 2, 1979 – July 6, 2003 ) was a Russian ice hockey player.

* The Catholic Encyclopedia, Robert Appleton Company, 1907, Online Edition, K. Night 2003: article Arabia

* 2003 – Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop ( b. 1919 )

In 2003, The Guardian newspaper found a confidential communique from John to Catholic bishops, allegedly mandating confidentiality in matters of pederasty with the threat of excommunication.

Peter Stanford, a Catholic journalist and writer, wrote, regarding Fatal Silence: the pope, the resistance and the German occupation of Rome ( written by Robert Katz ; ISBN 0-297-84661-2 ; Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2003 ): " Vatican still refuses to open all its files from the period – which seems to me to be a conclusive admission of guilt – but Katz has winkled various papers out of God's business address on earth to add to the stash of new information he has uncovered in America in the archives of the Office of Strategic Services.

* James A. Sheppard, " Sylvester III, Pope ," New Catholic Encyclopedia ( Detroit 2003 ) 13: 659.

Shanghai has the highest Catholic percentage in Mainland China ( 2003 ).

* The Catholic Encyclopedia The Encyclopedia Press, 1913, Online Edition 2003, K. Knight.

In 2003 Catholic World Report criticised Harry's disrespect for rules and authority, and regarded the series ' mixing of the magical and mundane worlds as " a fundamental rejection of the divine order in creation.

" Mission Dolores Links San Francisco with its 18th Century Roots-Founded as La Mission San Francisco De Asis by Franciscans, it survived earthquake and fire ", Catholic San Francisco, January 31, 2003.

Sheen was the 2003 recipient of the Marquette University Degree of Doctor of Letters, honoris causa for his work on social and Catholic issues ..

In 1967 the Mushuau Innu were settled in Utshimassits ( Davis Inlet ) on Iluikoyak Island located off the coast of Labrador Peninsula, inhibited the ability of the Mushuau Innu to continue their traditional caribou hunt on the mainland, therefore they were relocated in the winter of 2002 / 2003 to their new main settlement Natuashish ( speak: ‘ Nat-wah-sheesh ’), about 295 km north of Happy Valley-Goose Bay and 80 km southeast of Nain, Natuashish located on the mainland is only 15 km west of Utshimassits, ethnically they are Naskapi, speaking the Eastern Dialect ( Mushuau Innu or Davis Inlet variety ) of Iyuw Imuun and writing in Eastern Cree syllabics, but split off and headed to Eastern Labrador, very few ( if any ) are able to write in syllabics any more, the majority of the tribe is Catholic, which use the Montagnais Bible ( which does not use syllabics ) and therefore use the Latin alphabet, Reservation: Natuashish # 2, ca.

Until 2003, Catholic school students attended Holy Spirit School.

In 2003 Catholic World Report criticised Harry's disrespect for rules and authority, and regarded the series ' mixing of the magical and mundane worlds as " a fundamental rejection of the divine order in creation.

In 2003, the band Epica released the song " Cry for the Moon " on the album " The Phantom Agony " ( it was released as a single the next year ), based on the sex abuse scandals of the Catholic Church.

' The Mumbai bomb blasts and the Ayodhya tangle ', National Catholic Reporter ( Kansas City, August 27, 2003 ).

* Peter M. Batts, " Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire " in New Catholic Encyclopedia ( 2003 )

* The Great Mysteries: Experiencing Catholic Faith from the inside Out ( 2003 )

Outspoken Catholic Bishop Joseph Cardinal Zen has been a key figure in the debate over the legislation: on 15 May 2003 he instructed his church members to resist the introduction of the legislation.

Archbishop Gaetano Alibrandi ( Born at Castiglione di Sicilia-Provincia di Catania, Sicily on 14 January 1914 – Died at his native town on 3 July 2003 ) of the Roman Catholic Church was a senior papal diplomat and former Personal Secretary to Giovanni Battista Cardinal Montini ( later Pope Paul VI ).

The 2003 census listed 22, 947 citizens, of whom 78 % were Orthodox Christians, 13 % were listed as Roman Catholic.