In 1839 the population was 80 % Germans and German schools and churches were established.

Under the leadership of its second president, F. C. D. Wyneken, the Missouri Synod poured much effort into caring for German immigrants, helping them find a home among other Germans, building churches and parochial schools and providing pastors and teachers to serve in them.

The Germans in Russia frequently lived in ethnic German communities, where they maintained German-language schools and German churches.

Architecture and Landscape of the Pennsylvania Germans, 1720-1920 ( University of Pennsylvania Press ; 2011 ) 250 studies their houses, churches, barns, outbuildings, commercial buildings, and landscapes

Germans had little voice in government until 1949 when two states emerged ; the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany ) was a parliamentary democracy with a capitalistic system and free churches and labor unions.

Sweyn feared that Archbishop Adalbert of Hamburg would fill the upper ranks of Denmark's churches with Germans, so he brought Anglo-Danes over from England to keep the Danish church independent.

Many Germans became vintners or worked in the wine industry ; others founded Lutheran churches.

In the gloomy churches of the Germans his emissaries saw no beauty ; but at Hagia Sophia, where the full festival ritual of the Byzantine Church was set in motion to impress them, they found their ideal: " We no longer knew whether we were in heaven or on earth ," they reported, " nor such beauty, and we know not how to tell of it.

The LDS Church appointed Burkhardt as President of the Germany Dresden Mission in 1969 to comply with a new law requiring churches to be led by East Germans.

Immigrant groups that formed Congregational churches included Volga Germans, Swedes, Puerto Ricans, Chinese, Japanese, and Hawaiians.

Germans from Pennsylvania and from Germany brought Lutheran and Reformed churches and numerous smaller sects such as the Amish.

* Fancy Dutch, Pennsylvania Germans who belonged to the Reformed and Lutheran churches

He persuaded the Germans to carry out infrastructure improvements such as the building of roads, schools, health clinics, and churches ; and he defended his subjects from colonial reprisals.

New churches are built in areas where displaced Germans have settled.

The term Fancy Dutch or Gay Dutch refers to the Pennsylvania Germans who do not belong to the Anabaptist churches.

It was also reported that competition with the Roman Catholic Church and Islam were also factors in causing Nestorian Christianity to disappear in China, with " controversies with the emissaries of .... Rome, and the " progress of Mohammedanism, sapped the foundations of their ancient churches.

It was also reported that competition with the Roman Catholic Church and Islam were also factors in causing Nestorian Christianity to disappear in China ( Nestorianism in China ), with " controversies with the emissaries of .... Rome, and the " progress of Mohammedanism, sapped the foundations of their ancient churches.

The Second Great Awakening, a period of religious revival that occurred in the U. S. during the early 1800s, saw the development of a number of unrelated churches.

They generally saw themselves as restoring the original church of Jesus Christ rather than reforming one of the existing churches.

Many of his English subjects opposed his actions, in particular his interference in the English and Scottish churches and the levying of taxes without parliamentary consent, because they saw them as those of a tyrannical absolute monarch.

After Paul's departure, the churches were led astray from Paul's faith / trust centered teachings by individuals proposing " another gospel " ( which centered around salvation through the Mosaic law, so-called legalism ), whom Paul saw as preaching a " different gospel " from what Paul had taught.

The late Medieval period and the Renaissance saw the most prominent use of fresco, particularly in Italy, where most churches and many government buildings still feature fresco decoration.

Continuing to visit Spiritualist churches and séances, he was highly critical of much of what he saw, although he encountered several mediums he considered genuine.

Continued successes saw Gregory write to Boniface in December 724 to offer his congratulations, followed in November 726 by a response to Boniface ’ s questions about how to structure the newly emergent churches in Germany.

This was made up of non-denominational churches committed to what they saw as the original, fundamental Christianity of the New Testament.

As a result, local churches saw their roles in society in purifying the world through the individuals to whom they could bring salvation, and through changes in the law and the creation of institutions.

The large cities like Marseille and Toulon saw the building of churches, opera houses, grand boulevards, and parks.

Their influence saw a revival in the use of images and statues in churches.

The eye-witness Richard Clough, a Welsh Protestant merchant then in Antwerp, saw: " all the churches, chapels and houses of religion utterly defaced, and no kind of thing left whole within them, but broken and utterly destroyed, being done after such order and by so few folks that it is to be marvelled at.

In the early 10th century, economic recovery saw the building of many Romanesque churches in the region including Ailhon, Mercuer, St Julien du Serre, Balazuc, Niègles and Rochecolombe.

The people of Donalsonville saw the need to create churches to worship and with this vision came a number of churches, eventually totaling thirteen.

Scott was willing to take a quarter interest in a steam saw mill and would donate sites for churches, schools and burial grounds.

By 1861 the town had two churches, two general stores, a hotel, a saw mill and approximately 200 residents.

Three years later it had grown and included 2 churches, 3 dry goods stores, 3 groceries, 3 millinery shops, 2 drug stores, 2 meat markets, 2 hotels, 2 tin shops, a bank, 2 stave factories, 2 harness shops, a hardware store, a furniture store, a restaurant, a printing business, a tailor shop, a cooper shop, a steam saw mill, a sash and blind manufacturer, 4 doctors, 2 lawyers, 2 justices of the peace, and a newspaper.

In 1878, Garrattsville contained two churches, three general stores, a hardware stores, saw and gristmill, hotel, wagon shop, and five blacksmiths.

There were then 2 churches, several schools, a carriage factory, a saw and gristmill, a tannery, livestock yard, tin and blacksmiths, and a weekly newspaper.

After the connection to the Texas and Pacific Railway the city began to grow, and in 1885 there were six churches, three colleges, two public schools, three weekly newspapers, a saw mill, two grain mills, a power plant and 2300 inhabitants.

A number of churches saw their beginning in the 1880s: the Central Baptist, First Presbyterian, Saint Agnes Roman Catholic, First Methodist, and Saint Paul Baptist Church.

Byzantium ( 324-1453 ) saw itself as the true Rome, if Greek-speaking, Christian empire with colonies of Italians living among its citizens, participating in Crusades at the borders of its land, and ultimately, plundering its churches, palaces and monasteries of many of its treasures.

Upon his return to Greece, he found himself bitterly resented for his attachment to the minority party that saw no difficulty in a reconciliation of the two churches.

With the exception of the Roman Catholic and the Orthodox Catholic Churches, most churches make no moral distinction between rhythm and mechanical or chemical contraceptives, allowing the couple free choice.

But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

The Anglican Communion has no official legal existence nor any governing structure which might exercise authority over the member churches.

The remains of the acropolis fortifications are very interesting, including roads and ditches hewn in the rock ; but beyond ruins of two churches, a gatehouse, and a fine keep built by Thoros I There are no notable structures in the upper town.

Confessional Lutherans claim that the churches claiming apostolic succession have not preserved apostolic doctrine, therefore their leaders have no meaningful apostolic succession.

There is no reference to instrumental music in the worship of the New Testament or the worship of churches for the first six centuries.

It is striking that there is no written opposition to musical instruments in any setting in the 1st century and a half of the churches ( including scripture ).

This measure apparently had no great success, since French voyager Pierre Gilles writes in the middle of 16th century that the Greek population of Constantinople was unable to mention any name of the ancient Byzantine churches transformed in mosques or abandoned.

A Venerable has as of yet no feast day, no churches may be built in his or her honor, and the church has made no statement on the person's probable or certain presence in heaven, but prayer cards and other materials may be printed to encourage the faithful to pray for a miracle wrought by his or her intercession as a sign of God's will that the person be canonized.

Independent Baptist churches have no formal organizational structure above the level of the local congregation.

Although no official membership figures are published, the Columbia Encyclopedia gives an estimated figure of 50, 000 Christadelphians, who are spread across approximately 120 countries ; there are established churches ( or ecclesias, as they are often called ) in many of those countries, along with isolated members.

The Roman Catholic Church recognizes as ecumenical various councils held later than the First Council of Ephesus ( after which churches out of communion with the Holy See because of the Nestorian Schism did not participate ), later than the Council of Chalcedon ( after which there was no participation by churches that rejected Dyophysitism ), later than the Second Council of Nicaea ( after which there was no participation by the Eastern Orthodox Church ), and later than the Fifth Council of the Lateran ( after which groups that adhered to Protestantism did not participate ).

Many of these churches reject the idea that anyone other than the authors of Scripture can directly lead other Christians by original divine authority ; after the New Testament, they assert, the doors of revelation were closed and councils can only give advice or guidance, but have no authority.

There is no standard frequency ; John Calvin desired weekly communion, but the city council only approved monthly, and monthly celebration has become the most common practice in Reformed churches today.

These organizations are in full communion with each other, so any priest of any of those churches may lawfully minister to any member of any of them, and no member of any is excluded from any form of worship in any of the others, including reception of the Eucharist.

New Thought as a movement had no single origin, but was rather propelled along by a number of spiritual thinkers and philosophers and emerged through a variety of religious denominations and churches, particularly the Unity Church, Religious Science, and Church of Divine Science.

With the death of the emperor, Gregory and the Eastern churches were no longer under the threat of persecution, as the new emperor Jovian was an avowed Christian and supporter of the church.

As an adult, he frequently attended Episcopal churches, though there is no record he ever took communion.

The young artist, however, showed no interest in his schooling, preferring to copy paintings from churches and seek the company of painters.

Epiphanius, writing of Joseph of Tiberias, a wealthy Roman Jew who converted to Christianity in the time of Constantine, says he claimed to have received an imperial rescript to build Christian churches in Jewish towns and villages where no gentiles or Samaritans dwell, naming Tiberias, Diocaesarea, Sepphoris, Nazareth and Capernaum.