We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

* 1860 – The Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints — later renamed Community of Christ — is organized by Joseph Smith III and others at Amboy, Illinois

* 1893 – Salt Lake Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is dedicated by Wilford Woodruff.

The Eastern Orthodox Church dedicates several days throughout the year to the dead, mostly on Saturdays, because of Jesus ' resting in the Holy Sepulchre on that day.

Joseph F. Smith of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints presents an elaborate vision of the Afterlife.

* The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints also rejects Trinitarian doctrine, although other churches that are part of the Latter-Day Saint movement still adhere to the Nicene Creed.

* 1844 – The Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, headed by Brigham Young, is reaffirmed as the leading body of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

* 1932 – Dallin H. Oaks, American attorney, jurist, author, and religious leader, apostle of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* 1927 – Thomas S. Monson, American religious leader and author, 16th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* 1852 – At a general conference of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Brigham Young explains the Adam – God doctrine, an important part of the theology of Mormon fundamentalism.

It is " one of four elements which define the true Church of Jesus Christ " and legitimizes the ministry of its clergy, as only a bishop within the succession can perform legitimate or " valid " ordinations.

Most Protestant denominations deny the need of maintaining episcopal continuity with the early Church, holding that the role of the apostles was that, having been chosen directly by Jesus as witnesses of his resurrection, they were to be the " special instruments of the Holy Spirit in founding and building up the Church ".

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( sometimes referred to as Mormons ) claim apostolic succession through the process of restoration.

Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints often, but not exclusively consider anointing to be an ordinance.

Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( Mormon or LDS Church ) who hold the Melchizedek priesthood may use consecrated oil in performing the ordinance of blessing of the " sick or afflicted ", though oil is not required if it is unavailable.

* 1899 – Ezra Taft Benson, American missionary and politician, 13th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( d. 1994 )

* Aba Nigeria Temple, of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Aba, Abia, Nigeria

Baptism of Jesus | Baptism of Christ on the 12th-century baptismal font at St Bartholomew's Church, Liège.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the Bishop is the leader of a local congregation, called a ward.

Bishops ( as well as other members of the priesthood ) can trace their line of authority back to Joseph Smith, Jr., who, according to church doctrine, was ordained to lead the Church in modern times by the ancient apostles Peter, James, and John, who were ordained to lead the Church by Jesus Christ.

Many Christians interpret Boaz and Ruth as typical of Jesus and the Church.

Indeed, it is even surprising in the Canon of Christ Church and Regius Professor of Ecclesiastical History, who fathered this most peculiar view, and in the brilliant Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Cambridge, who inherited it and is now its most eminent proponent.

Whenever a congregation really sees itself as a unit in the universal Church, in vital relation with the whole Body of Christ and participating in His mission to the world, a necessary foundation-stone of the ecumenical movement has been laid.

It would doubtless be greatly surprised to be told that in failing to be ecumenical it is really failing to be the Church of Christ.

Dade's chief probation officer, Jack Blanton, will lead a discussion on `` The Changes in the American Family '' at 7:30 p.m. Sunday at Christ Lutheran Church.

In the average situation about one-third of those visited make commitments to Christ and the Church.

Ask each member to write a statement on such topics as: `` What Christ Means To Me '', `` What The Church Means To Me '', `` Why Join The Church '', `` The Duties Of Church Members '', etc..

* 1830 – The Church of Christ, the original church of the Latter Day Saint movement, is organized by Joseph Smith, Jr. and others at Fayette or Manchester, New York.

** Basil Fool for Christ ( Russian Orthodox Church )

Fixity does not lie in a hidden decree, therefore, but in corporate unity of the Church with Christ, whom it has come to know in the gospel and has learned to embrace in faith.

Andronikos was now formally proclaimed as co-emperor before the crowd on the terrace of the Church of Christ of the Chalkè, and not long afterwards, on the pretext that divided rule was injurious to the Empire, he caused Alexios II to be strangled with a bow-string ( October 1183 ).

And a solemn diploma from Christ Church, Canterbury dated 873 is so poorly constructed and written that historian Nicholas Brooks posited a scribe who was either so blind he could not read what he wrote or who knew little or no Latin.

Alexios II was compelled to acknowledge Andronikos as colleague in the empire in front of the crowd on the terrace of the Church of Christ of the Chalkè and was then quickly put to death in turn ; the killing was carried out by Tripsychos, Theodore Dadibrenos and Stephen Hagiochristophorites.

The Rigdonite Mormon settlement at Greencastle only lasted a few years ; some former Rigdon followers went to Utah to join Brigham Young, while William Bickerton, who had opposed Rigdon's move to Greencastle, would eventually reorganize the remaining Pennsylvania branch of the Latter Day Saint movement in Pittsburgh as The Church of Jesus Christ ( Bickertonite ).

A descendant of the Rigdonite church lives on today as the Church of Jesus Christ ( Bickertonite ), which is not recognized as legitimate by Strangites.

Rigdonite apostles William E. McLellin and Benjamin Winchester grew disgusted with Rigdon's leadership and found a new church president and organization in the person of David Whitmer and the Church of Christ ( Whitmerite ).

* Primitive Church of Jesus Christ ( Bickertonite ): defunct Rigdonite / Bickertonite church

* Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ ( Bickertonite ): defunct Rigdonite / Bickertonite church

In the United Methodist Church ( the largest branch of Methodism in the United States ) bishops serve as administrative and pastoral superintendents of the church.

One branch of the ritualistic movement argued that both ' Romanisers ' ( by imitating the Church of Rome ) and their Evangelical opponents ( by imitating Reformed churches ) transgressed the Ornaments Rubric of 1559, ' that such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth '.

Some Anglicans consider their church a branch of the " One Holy Catholic Church " alongside of the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches, a concept rejected by the Roman Catholic Church and some Eastern Orthodox.

Though the Church is prohibited by the Manual from publishing membership figures, the number of branch churches in the United States has fallen steadily since World War II.

Central areas of Eritrea and most tribes in today's northern Ethiopia share a common background and cultural heritage in the Kingdom of Aksum ( and its successor dynasties ) of the first millennium ( as well as the first millennium BC kingdom of D ’ mt ), and in its Ethiopian Orthodox Christian Church ( today, with an autocephalous Eritrean branch ), as well as in its Ge ' ez language.

In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS church ), the " Holy Sacrament of the Lord's Supper ", more simply referred to as the Sacrament, is administered every Sunday ( except General Conference or other special Sunday meeting ) in each LDS Ward or branch worldwide at the beginning of Sacrament meeting.

The Primitive Methodist Church is a continuing branch of the former British Primitive Methodist Church.

Dr. Kingsley Ridgway offered himself as a Melbourne based " field representative " for a possible Australian branch of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of America, after meeting an American serviceman who was a member of that denomination.

The LDS Church is by far the largest branch of Mormonism.

Now firmly established in Persia, with centers in Nisibis, Ctesiphon, and Gundeshapur, and several metropolitan sees, the Nestorian Persian Church began to branch out beyond the Persian Sassanid Empire.

The term started to gain currency in 1622, when a new branch of the Catholic Church was created, called the Congregatio de Propaganda Fide ( Congregation for Propagating the Faith ), or informally simply Propaganda.

Spring Life Church, formerly Howe Wesleyan Church ( www. springlifechurch. org ) was part of the Methodist branch in the area and was started in 1908.

One of many distinguished students of Alonzo Church, Kleene, along with Alan Turing, Emil Post, and others, is best known as a founder of the branch of mathematical logic known as recursion theory.

It upholds the concept of the " visible and invisible Church ," meaning that all who are truly believers in every age belong to the holy Church invisible, while the United Methodist Church is a branch of the Church visible, to which all believers must be connected as it is the only institution wherein the Word of God is preached and the Sacraments are administered.

Historically, the Church of the East was the widest reaching branch of Eastern Christianity, at its height spreading from its heartland in Persian ruled Mesopotamia to the Mediterranean, India, and China.

The key idea was that Anglicanism was not a Protestant denomination, but rather a branch of the historic Catholic Church, along with the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox churches.