The lack of apostolic succession through bishops is the primary basis on which Protestant communities are not considered churches by the Orthodox churches and the Roman Catholic Church.

Other Christians too, in particular Anglicans, Lutherans and some Protestant and other Christian communities use a rite of anointing the sick, without necessarily classifying it as a sacrament.

Non-traditional Protestant communities generally use the term " ordinance " rather than " Sacrament ".

Liturgical or Mainline Protestant communities ( e. g. Presbyterian, Congregationalist / United Church of Christ, Methodist, Lutheran, etc.

Lutheran communities in particular have the practice of anointing the sick, or have always offered the rite since the Protestant Reformation with varying degrees of frequency.

Celibacy is viewed differently by the Catholic Church and the various Protestant communities.

Protestant celibate communities have emerged, especially from Anglican and Lutheran backgrounds.

The Catholic Church has set up various rules regarding clerical celibacy, while most Protestant communities allow clergy to marry.

Some Protestant communities including most Lutheran churches practice closed communion and require catechetical instruction for all people before receiving the Eucharist.

Most Protestant communities, including Reformed, Evangelical, Methodist, the Church of Sweden, and Anglicans practice open communion in the sense of not limiting it to members of their own Church alone, but some of them require that the communicant be a baptized person or a member of a partner church.

While Smith won extra support among Catholics in the big cities Smith was the target of intense anti-Catholicism from some Protestant communities, especially as Southern Baptists and German Lutherans.

Many communities also existed in Mexican Texas until the revolution there, when they sided with Catholic Mexico against Protestant pro-U. S. elements.

The two institutions were merged in 1969 by the government of Alex Campbell as part of a campaign to integrate the Island's Roman Catholic and Protestant communities, which had previously maintained the two separate institutions of higher learning.

From 1560 onwards tensions rose between the Protestant and Catholic communities.

Many other Protestant communities hold special services on this day as well.

However, Iceland has complete religious liberty, and other Protestant and Roman Catholic congregations are present ( about 3. 5 %), along with small communities of major world religions.

At the same time, plans were being drawn up for a Reformed programme of parish worship and preaching, as local communities sought out Protestant ministers.

This led to the formation of alternative communities of practice that became known as " Lutheran " or " Protestant ".

Northern Ireland's two main communities are its Irish nationalist / republican community ( who mainly self-identify as Irish and / or Catholic ) and its unionist / loyalist community ( who mainly self-identify as British and / or Protestant ).

In Northern Ireland, bonfires are lit on Halloween, October 31. and each 11 July, bonfires are lit by many Protestant communities to celebrate the victory of Williamite forces at the Battle of the Boyne, which took place on 12 July 1690.

In Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, Ireland and New Zealand among Anglicans, Lutherans, some other Protestant denominations, including ethnic British communities, as well as Catholics, this day is also known as Pancake Day, as it is customary to eat pancakes as a dessert.

As well as being multiracial, the band drew their members not only from both sides of the Irish border but also from both the Catholic and Protestant communities during The Troubles.

It was situated on an interface between two communities with differing religious predominations: Catholic Twinbrook and Protestant Dunmurry ( coordinates: ).

The switch among Hutterites from Tirolean German to Carinthian German occurred during years of severe persecution in Europe when Hutterite communities were devastated and survival depended on the conversion of many Austrian Protestant refugees to Hutterite anabaptism.

Francis I generally opposed a general council due to partial support of the Protestant cause within France, and in 1533 he further complicated matters when suggesting a general council to include both Catholic and Protestant rulers of Europe that would devise a compromise between the two theological systems.

Many Protestant congregations generally reserve a period of time for self-examination and private, silent confession just before partaking in the Lord's Supper.

Protestants generally use religious art for teaching and for inspiration, but such images are not venerated as in Orthodoxy, and many Protestant church sanctuaries contain no imagery at all.

In fact, Protestant readers are not generally inclined to accept his writings as authoritative.

Protestant denominations have not generally subscribed to belief in transubstantiation or consubstantiation.

This belief is held also by some Reform and Protestant Christian churches, Lutherans and Anglicans, though they generally deny transubstantiation.

Swedish students generally travelled to one of the Protestant universities in Germany, especially Wittenberg.

Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant creeds generally insist on Trinitarian belief as an essential aspect of Christianity and basic to a group's continuity of identity with the historical Christian faith.

However, Charles, who liked to see himself as a champion of Protestant Europe, greatly disliked Louis XIV for his treatment of the Huguenots, and was generally uninterested in the western war.

The Chalcedonian churches -- that is, the Eastern Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches together with those Protestant churches that accept at least the first four Ecumenical Councils -- have always considered monophysitism to be heretical and have generally viewed it as the ( explicit or implicit ) position of the Oriental Orthodox churches.

A striking example of the general pattern is the traditionally Catholic Emsland, where the Social Democrats generally gain a low percentage of votes, whereas the Reformed Protestant region of East Frisia directly to the north, with its strong traditional streak of anti-Catholism, is one of their strongest constituencies.

The crown, occupied by the House of Valois, generally supported the Catholic side, but on occasion switched over to the Protestant cause when politically expedient.

Protestant scholars since the Reformation have generally believed that Jesus was setting his teaching over against false interpretations of the law current at the time.

These immigrants were more often adherents of Catholicism in contrast to the generally Protestant population previously in the county.

Subsequent Protestant churches generally trace their roots back to these initial four schools of the Reformation.

As a Transylvanian Protestant aristocrat, Elizabeth belonged to a group generally opposed to the Habsburgs.

For particular historical and cultural reasons, the Church of Ireland is generally identified as a Protestant church.

This generally guaranteed the loyalty of Protestant voters to the Unionist Party.

Religious movements which expect that the second coming of Christ, will be a cataclysmic event, generally called adventism, have arisen throughout the Christian era ; but they became particularly common during and after the Protestant Reformation.

The Christian view of idolatry may generally be divided into two general categories, the Catholic / Orthodox view ( which accepts the use of religious icons and other images ) and the Protestant view.

Various actual Protestant doctrines were framed as extreme and unprecedented ; they were associated with older heresies and generally condemned by the Council, whose work formed the basis for the Roman Catholic Counter-Reformation.

Martin Niemöller's group cooperated generally with the new Zoellner committee, but still maintained that it represented the true Protestant Church in Germany and that the DEK was, to put it more bluntly than Niemöller would in public, no more than a collection of heretics.