Like the Roman Catholic Church, these ancient Eastern churches may use the doctrine of apostolic succession in ministry in their apologetics against Protestantism.

Like the Eastern Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church through Apostolic succession traces its origins to the Christian community founded by Jesus Christ.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church also traces its heritage to the foundation of Christianity through Apostolic succession and has an episcopal structure, though the autonomy of the individual, mostly national churches is emphasized.

Like the Roman Catholic deuterocanonical books, these texts are integrated with the rest of the Old Testament, not printed in a separate section.

Like the Roman Catholic Church, the Orthodox Church claims to be the One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church.

Like the majority of Belgians at that time, his family belonged to the Roman Catholic Church, though were not particularly devout.

Like Petrarch, who had been the first famous philologist to study the works of the ancient Roman poets, Alberti loved classics, but he compared continual reading and rereading in libraries.

Like many Italian dishes, minestrone was probably originally not a dish made for its own sake, like for example the ancient Roman green onion soup " Patella Lucretiana ", or Lucrezio's dish.

Like most northern Italian cities, it was nominally a part of the Holy Roman Empire created by Charlemagne, but locally ruled by its bishops, the first being Guibodus.

Like other iterations of the Inquisition, the Roman Inquisition was responsible for prosecuting individuals accused of committing offences relating to heresy, including Protestantism, sorcery, immorality, blasphemy, Judaizing and witchcraft, as well for censorship of printed literature.

Like all of Poland, Wrocław's population is predominantly Roman Catholic ; the city is the seat of an Archdiocese.

Like other contemporary arrangements, the agreement stressed the responsibility of the adopted rather than adopter, focusing on the fact that, under the contract, the adoptive father was meant to be cared for in his old age ; an idea that is similar to the conceptions of adoption under Roman law.

Like many other Roman towns however, Winchester began to decline in the later fourth century.

Like her mother, Ellen Ewing Sherman was a devout Roman Catholic, and the Shermans ' eight children were reared in that faith.

Like many other Roman institutions, the praetor (, praitōr ) survived in the Eastern Roman ( Byzantine ) Empire.

Like her brother, Berenice was a client ruler of the parts of the Roman Empire that lie in the present-day Syria.

Like much Roman comedy, it is probably translated from an earlier Greek original, most commonly held to be Philemon's Long Night, or Rhinthon's Amphitryon, both now lost.

Like most borderland tribes, they were looked upon as barbarians by the Romans even though they had been Roman subjects for more than five centuries.

Like many other figures in Greek and Roman mythology, Plutus ' name is related to several English words.

Like other towers in the town, from 1686 onwards, the Constance Tower was used as a prison for the Huguenots who refused to convert to Roman Catholicism.

Like Belatu-Cadros, he was probably worshipped by lower-ranked Roman soldiers as well as Britons.

Like many others, St. Kieran's is a casualty in the widespread restructuring and consolidation of Roman Catholic churches currently underway in America.

Like the hairstyles, the clothing depicted also follows the general fashions of the Roman Empire, as known from statues and busts.

Like his father, Alboin was raised a pagan, although Audoin had at one point attempted to gain Byzantine support against his neighbours by professing himself a Catholic.

Like Brooke, he is uncritical of the show's journalistic tactics ( although in the episode Judge and Jury, he has reservations about their persecution of a priest accused of rape, mainly because he is a lapsed Catholic ); in fact he is usually the confidante of the executive producers, and the one they can trust to do what is needed to get a good story, or to persuade Mike to present a story.

Like everywhere in Brabant, Tilburg had more Catholic people than other parts of the Netherlands.

Following their joint growth in the 18th and 19th centuries, by the early 20th century the Rosary and the devotional Scapular had gained such a strong following among Catholics worldwide that the Catholic Encyclopedia of 1914 stated: " Like the Rosary, the Brown Scapular has become the badge of the devout Catholic.

Like his father George Calvert, who had originated the efforts that led to the colony's charter, Cecilius Calvert was Catholic at a time when England was dominated by the Anglican Church.

Like most Australians of Irish Catholic background, Lyons was an anti-conscriptionist and stayed in the Labor Party, becoming its new leader in Tasmania.

Like James, Anne later supported a Catholic match for both their sons, and her correspondence with the potential bride, the Spanish Infanta, Maria Anna, included a request that two friars be sent to Jerusalem to pray for her and the King.

Like Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico, Our Lady of Lourdes is a major Catholic symbol in France.

Like the southern Dutch states of Flanders and Hainaut, the Duchy Brabant-Limburg had chosen the side of the Catholic monarchs of Spain.

Like other religious reformers of the time, they felt that the Catholic Church needed radical cleansing of its impurities, and that the Pope ruled the Church as if it was a worldly kingdom, which sat in mocking tyranny over the things of God, and was ultimately doomed.

Some Like It Hot received a " C " ( Condemned ) rating from the National Legion of Decency ( formerly the Catholic Legion of Decency ).

Like other customs associated with popular Catholic Christianity, it earned the disapproval of Protestant Puritans.

Like the rest of the Mexican Republic, Tabasco's population is mostly Catholic, with many Protestant denominations also represented.

Like many other mainline Protestant denominations, the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ) has experienced a significant loss of membership since the middle of the 20th century.

Like most other national organizations, the Methodist Church experienced tensions and rifts over the slavery dispute.

Like his famous predecessor Innocent III, he set his mind on the achievement of two great goals: the recovery of the Holy Land in the Fifth Crusade and a spiritual reform of the entire Church.

Like other historic Christian churches, The United Methodist Church has official liturgies for services of Holy Communion, baptism, weddings, funerals, ordination, anointing of the sick for healing, and daily office prayer services.

Like many other mainline Protestant denominations in the United States, the United Methodist Church has experienced significant membership losses in recent decades.

Like the other early medieval universities ( Bologna, Oxford, Salamanca, Cambridge, Padua ), the University of Paris was already well established before it received a specific foundation act from the Church in 1200.

Like Roanoke College, it was affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Like Capital University, Trinity Lutheran Seminary was founded in 1830, and is a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ).

Like all 15 Habsburg empresses before her, her body was buried in the crypt, but her heart was sent to the Augustinian Church, where she was married, and her internal organs were placed in the crypt of the Metropolitan Church of Saint Stephen.

Like other Irish churches, the Church of Ireland did not divide when Ireland was partitioned in the 1920s.

Like many other Anglican churches, the Church of Ireland is a member of many ecumenical bodies, including the World Council of Churches, the Conference of European Churches, Churches Together in Britain and Ireland, and the Irish Council of Churches.