… ( It ) is the universal government of the Catholic Church and operates from the Vatican City State.

We, adhering faithfully to the tradition received from the beginning of the Christian faith, to the glory of God, our Saviour, the elevation of the Catholic religion and the salvation of Christian peoples, with the approbation of the sacred Council, teach and explain that the dogma has been divinely revealed: that the Roman Pontiff, when he speaks ex cathedra, that is, when carrying out the duty of the pastor and teacher of all Christians by his supreme apostolic authority he defines a doctrine of faith or morals to be held by the universal Church, through the divine assistance promised him in blessed Peter, operates with that infallibility with which the divine Redeemer wished that His church be instructed in defining doctrine on faith and morals ; and so such definitions of the Roman Pontiff from himself, but not from the consensus of the Church, are unalterable.

In many ways, the United Methodist Church operates in a connectional organization of the Annual Conferences, and actions taken by one conference are not binding upon another.

The Community of Christ also currently owns the original Kirtland Temple, built by the Church of Christ, in Kirtland, Ohio, which it operates as a historic site.

Besides its central offices, the LDS Church owns and operates a profit division, Deseret Management Corporation and its subsidiaries, which are headquartered in the city.

The University operates as a company limited by guarantee, under the Companies ( Victoria ) Code and has a constitution which clearly identifies its objects in education, scholarship and research as part of the mission of the Catholic Church.

All Angels Episcopal Church operates All Angels Academy for children of a similar age group, as does Grace Lutheran Church with its Grace Lutheran Learning Center.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church operates Pleasantview SDA School which offers courses for grades K-8, and the Montessori School of Greater Lafayette teaches K-6.

The Catholic Church operates two schools in Hammond: Saint Thomas Aquinas High School, which is just north of the city, and Holy Ghost Catholic School ( pre-kindergarten through 8th grades ).

The Lutheran Brethren ( Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America ) established an academy in Fergus Falls, which today operates a private high school, theological seminary and mission society, with an office in Fergus Falls.

Our Lady of Grace is an elementary school that operates under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Camden As part of the Camden Diocese reorganization, Our Lady of Grace School ( K-8 ) and the Church were both closed.

Image: Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Floresville, TX IMG_2698. JPG |< center > Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Floresville also operates an adjacent parochial school.

The church operates a seminary, the Church of Ireland Theological Institute, in Rathgar, in the south inner suburbs of Dublin.

For example, a conveyance " to the Red Cross, so long as it operates an office on the property, but if it does not, then to the Roman Catholic Church " would be void under the Rule, except that both parties are charities.

Thus, a devise " to John Smith, so long as no one operates a liquor store on the premises, but if someone does operate a liquor store on the premises, then to the Roman Catholic Church " would violate the rule.

The Church of God ( Cleveland ) operates one Christian Liberal Arts universitie, Lee University in Cleveland, established in 1918.

The new Church of the Nazarene retained the Methodist Episcopal tradition of education and now operates 56 educational institutions around the world, including eight liberal arts colleges in the United States, each tied to an " educational region ".

The Town of Tonawanda Historical Society operates a museum out of a former German Evangelical Church constructed in 1849.

The Central Board of Trustees for the denomination, The Free Church of England Central Trust, operates as a registered UK charity ( No. 271151 ) and is a company limited by guarantee with no share capital.

Vaticanologist or Vaticanist is a term coined in the mid-to-late twentieth century to describe journalists, academics and commentators whose area of expertise is in studying and understanding the manner by which the Holy See and the Roman Catholic Church operates.

* Episcopal: The AME Church operates under an episcopal form of church government.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church also operates Fountainview Academy, an international private school and organic farming experience about 24 km south of Lillooet on British Columbia Highway 12.

It has been alleged that the Cathar Church of the Languedoc had a relatively flat structure, distinguishing between perfecti ( a term they did not use, instead bonhommes ) and credentes.

The water that in the Latin Church is prescribed to be mixed with the wine must be only a relatively small quantity.

The continued spread of Christianity, and the foundation of national churches, led to the translation of the Bible — often beginning with books from the New Testament — into a variety of other languages at a relatively early date: Armenian, Georgian, Ethiopic, Persian, Soghdian, and eventually Gothic, Old Church Slavonic, Arabic, and Nubian.

The Methodist Church has a relatively high membership in Shetland, which is a District of the Methodist Church ( with the rest of Scotland comprising a separate District ).

Without the Capetians ' ideological trappings of an anointed monarchy forever entangled with the hierarchy of the Church, the king's administration and law unified the realm, rendering him relatively impervious to papal condemnation.

Investigative efforts were hampered by the fact that CIA Director Richard Helms ordered all MKUltra files destroyed in 1973 ; the Church Committee and Rockefeller Commission investigations relied on the sworn testimony of direct participants and on the relatively small number of documents that survived Helms ' destruction order.

Old Church Slavonic is evidenced by a relatively small body of manuscripts, most of which were written in Bulgaria during the late 10th and the early 11th centuries.

The Catholic Church divides sin into two categories: venial sins, in which guilt is relatively minor, and the more severe mortal sins.

The relatively austere interior of St Barbara Church, Valletta | St Barbara Church

Although at that point Protestants so far represented only a relatively small proportion of the Netherlandish population-notably including disproportionate numbers from the nobility and upper bourgeoisie-the Catholic Church had evidently lost the loyalty of the population as traditional Catholic anti-clericalism was now dominant.

To a large degree, Protestantism recognizes that the formation of the Orthodox-Catholic Church under Caesar Constantine I ( c. 325 AD ) sought to bring stability, continuity and organization to the birth of the relatively new Christian faith.

Pine Ridge Missionary Church is a relatively new church, just established in April 1962.

The school, cemetery and Harvester restaurant all lie along South Main St. North Main boasts the relatively new music studio ( housed in what used to be an independent hardware store ), a convenience store, the village library, park, phone company and post office, the bank, Peace Community Church, a few homes, and the town newspaper: the Climax Crescent.

Despite its relatively small population, Greifswald retains a supra-regional relevance linked to its intellectual role as a university town and to the taking of the central functions of the former Prussian Province of Pomerania after World War II, such as the seat of the bishop of the Pomeranian Lutheran Church, the state archives ( Landesarchiv ) and the Pomeranian Museum ( Pommersches Landesmuseum ).

The Baltic states and Poland gained their independence from Russia after World War I, thus enabling a relatively free Church life in those former Russian countries.

Although his reforms were relatively moderate, he was widely disliked by the United States government, the Catholic Church, large landowners, employers such as the United Fruit Company, and Guatemalan military officers, who viewed his government as inefficient, corrupt, and heavily influenced by Communists.

The LDS-organized territory petitioned for statehood as the State of Deseret in 1849-1850, but the petition was rejected by the U. S. Congress because of the vast size of the relatively unpopulated area that was controlled exclusively by the Church.

The suppression of the Marcionist form of Christianity is thus viewed as a catalyst for the development of the New Testament canon, the establishment of a centralised church law, and the structuring of the Church, which remained a relatively unchallenged mainstay in Christendom until the Protestant Reformation.

Many of those few Confessing Church members who actively attempted to subvert Hitler's policies were extremely cautious and relatively ineffective.

While it is suggested periodically that the Church of Ireland, which has a relatively small membership, might hand over one of its cathedrals to the Roman Catholic Church, no serious proposals have been made for such an arrangement.

Now they are relatively few in numbers and are divided into three Churches, of which the Chaldaean Church, which is in communion with Rome, is the most numerous, while the others have recently split between the Assyrian Church of the East and the Ancient Church of the East.