Faiths leaning at least in part in the Arminian direction include Methodists, Free Will Baptists, General Baptists, Seventh-day Adventists, Church of the Nazarene, The Salvation Army, Conservative Mennonites, Old Order Mennonites, Amish and Charismatics.

In its 1982 statement on Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council of Churches stated that " the primary manifestation of apostolic succession is to be found in the apostolic tradition of the Church as a whole ….

Present-day Christian religious bodies known for conducting their worship services without musical accompaniment include some Presbyterian churches devoted to the regulative principle of worship, Old Regular Baptists, Primitive Baptists, Plymouth Brethren, Churches of Christ, the Old German Baptist Brethren, the Eastern Orthodox Christian Church and the Amish, Old Order Mennonites and Conservative Mennonites.

In the United Methodist Church bishops remain members of the " Order of Elders " while being consecrated to the " Office of the Episcopacy ".

Cardinal bishops ( cardinals of the Episcopal Order ) are among the most senior prelates of the Catholic Church.

With charity, the other concept that most defines the work and spirituality of the Order, study became the method most used by the Dominicans in working to defend the Church against the perils that hounded it, and also of enlarging its authority over larger areas of the known world.

In the Community of Christ, which was formerly known as the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, an evangelist is an office in the Melchizedec Order of the priesthood.

Viewing the SS as an " order " along the lines of the Teutonic Knights, he had them take over the Church of the Teutonic Order in Vienna in 1939.

* 1976 – Missouri Governor Kit Bond issues an executive order rescinding the Extermination Order, formally apologizing on behalf of the state of Missouri for the suffering it had caused to the members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.

The Jesuits today form the largest single religious order of priests and brothers in the Catholic Church, although they are surpassed by the Franciscan family of first orders Order of Friars Minor ( OFM ), OFM Capuchins, and Conventuals.

Officially endorsed by the Catholic Church around 1129, the Order became a favored charity throughout Christendom, and grew rapidly in membership and power.

Bernard spoke and wrote persuasively on their behalf, and in 1129 at the Council of Troyes the Order was officially endorsed by the Church.

He began pressuring the Church to take action against the Order, as a way of freeing himself from his debts.

It is a record of the trial of the Templars and shows that Clement absolved the Templars of all heresies in 1308 before formally disbanding the Order in 1312, as did another Chinon Parchment dated 20 August 1308 addressed to Philip IV of France, also mentioning that all Templars that had confessed to heresy were " restored to the Sacraments and to the unity of the Church ".

The current position of the Roman Catholic Church is that the medieval persecution of the Knights Templar was unjust, that nothing was inherently wrong with the Order or its Rule, and that Pope Clement was pressed into his actions by the magnitude of the public scandal and by the dominating influence of King Philip IV, who was Clement's relative.

* the law of consecration also known as the United Order ( put in abeyance by the LDS Church in the 19th century );

His uncle Gregory IX made him cardinal deacon and Protector of the Order of Franciscans in 1227, Camerlengo of the Holy Roman Church from 1227 until 1231 and Bishop of Ostia in 1231 ( or 1232 ).

Complementing that is the Book of Order which gives the rationale and description for the organization and function of the Church at all levels.

The Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A ) has a representative form of government, known as presbyterian polity, with four levels of government and administration, as outlined in the Book of Order.

In 1972 the Orthodox Church of Antioch presented Askin with the Order of St Peter and St Paul for his services to ethnic minorities.

** Confrontations occur in Northern Ireland between police and Orange Order protestors at Drumcree Church ( see Drumcree conflict ).

For over fifty years Padre Pio of Pietrelcina of the Order of Friars Minor Capuchin reported stigmata which were studied by several 20th century physicians, whose independence from the Church is not known.

The title means " Order of Priests " in Latin, and is taken from the first line of the decree ( its incipit ), as is customary for such documents in the Catholic Church.

Following the recommendations of the Church Committee, President Gerald Ford in 1976 issued the first Executive Order on Intelligence Activities which, among other things, prohibited " experimentation with drugs on human subjects, except with the informed consent, in writing and witnessed by a disinterested party, of each such human subject " and in accordance with the guidelines issued by the National Commission.

At the Diet of Nuremberg, which opened in December 1522, he was represented by Francesco Chiericati, whose private instructions contain the frank admission that the disorder of the Church was perhaps the fault of the Roman Curia itself, and that it should be reformed.

Consequently, in May 1074 he did penance at Nuremberg – in the presence of the papal legates – to atone for his continued friendship with the members of his council who had been banned by Gregory, took an oath of obedience, and promised his support in the work of reforming the Church.

Wenceslaus was born in the Imperial city of Nuremberg, the son of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV by his third wife Anna von Schweidnitz, a scion of the Silesian Piasts, and baptized at St. Sebaldus Church.

Rupert and his wife Elisabeth of Nuremberg, detail from their tomb in the Church of the Holy Spirit ( Heidelberg ) | Holy Spirit Church, Heidelberg

* Nuremberg ( St. Sebaldus Church )

The Christian-Spirit Religious Society (), founded in 1927 in Nuremberg by Artur Dinter, saw more effect in the churches, striving for the ' de-Judification ' () and the building of a non-denominational People's Church ().

Nominated by Clement VII a member of the committee of cardinals appointed to report on the " Nuremberg Recess ", he recommended, in opposition to the majority, certain concessions to the Lutherans, notably the marriage of the clergy as in the Greek Church, and communion in both kinds according to the decision of the council of Basel.

He was apparently the architect of the Church of Our Lady ( Frauenkirche ) built in the market square of Nuremberg, to replace the synagogue torn down in the pogrom of 1349 following the plague.

Nuremberg sculptor Adam Kraft, self-portrait from St Lorenz Church, 1490s.

Another important work is a huge relief of 1490-92 depicting the Crucifixion, Entombment of Christ, and Resurrection of Christ, on the exterior of St. Sebaldus Church, Nuremberg.

Beloved Dr. R. F. Campbell, our First Presbyterian Church pastor, was in charge.

This group in Park Place Church was made up of the earnest few.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

To the pope, head of the universal Church, to the duke of Burgundy, taking full advantage of his position on the borders of France and of the Empire, or to Othon, who found it quite natural that he should do homage to Edward for Tipperary and to the count of Savoy for Grandson, Flotte's outspoken nationalism was completely incomprehensible.

Thus, the Church was born and because of its intrinsic character was soon identified as a conservative institution, determined to resist the forces of change, to identify itself with the political rulers, and to maintain a kind of splendid isolation from the masses.

But I was deeply moved by his letter of resignation as rector of St. Luke's Church in Atlanta.

At a recent meeting of the Women's Association of the Trumbull Ave. United Presbyterian Church, considerable use was made of material from The Detroit News on the King James version of the New Testament versus the New English Bible.

In the midst of this crowded region was the Allen African Methodist Episcopal Church.

The Dutch Reformed Church, with two steeples and its own school was on Main Street ; ;

the Episcopal Church was one block down Sussex Street ; ;

There was no church like Drew Church, no preacher like Papa, who was intimate with Him, and could consign sinners to hellfire.

The next morning, as the clock struck nine, he appeared at the Council meeting in the Town Hall and insisted that the couple would have to be punished if the Church was to be respected.

And John's reply was always the same: `` Anything that affects souls is the concern of the Church!!

This conception was taken up by the early Church Fathers and by canon lawyers and theologians in the Middle Ages ; ;

An excellent article was published recently in the Journal Of The Church Peace Union by a South African journalist on the inhuman economic conditions of the blacks in South Africa, amounting to virtual slavery, and the economic complicity of both the government and the people of the United States in these conditions.

Miss Joan Frances Baker, a graduate of SMU, was married Saturday to Elvis Leonard Mason, an honor graduate of Lamar State College of Technology, in the chapel of the First Presbyterian Church of Houston.

The First Christian Church of Pampa was the setting for the wedding last Sunday of Miss Marcile Marie Glison and Thomas Earl Loving Jr., who will live at 8861 Gaston after a wedding trip to New Orleans, La.

He was a member of the Oakland City Methodist Church and a native of Atlanta.

The best approach, he figured, was to try to influence young people like the high schoolers he and his wife serve as advisors at First Presbyterian Church.

The Church Unity Octave, January 18-25, was enthusiastically devoted to prayer and discussion by the various churches.

There was so much interest shown in this present-day venture that it was continued on B.B.C., where comments were equally made by an Anglican parson, a Free Church minister and a Catholic priest.