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.

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.

" The charter required that the makeup of the board of 36 trustees include, 22 Baptists, five Friends, four Congregationalists, and five Church of England members, and by 12 Fellows, of whom eight, including the President, should be Baptists " and the rest indifferently of any or all denominations.

The Baptists have been non-creedal “ in that they have not sought to establish binding authoritative confessions of faith on one another .” Also rejecting creeds are groups with roots in the Restoration Movement, such as the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada and the Churches of Christ.

These groups include the ' Brethren ' ( often both ' Open ' and ' Exclusive '), the Churches of Christ, Mennonites, Primitive Baptists, and certain Reformed churches, although during the last century or so, several of these, such as the Free Church of Scotland have abandoned this stance.

Many religions popular in ethnic regions of the Soviet Union, including the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Catholic Churches, Baptists, Islam, Buddhism, and Judaism underwent ordeals similar to that which the Orthodox churches in other parts of the country suffered: thousands of monks were persecuted, and hundreds of churches, synagogues, mosques, temples, sacred monuments, monasteries and other religious buildings were razed.

Trinitarian Christian denominations that oppose infant baptism include Baptists, Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), Christian Churches / Churches of Christ, and Churches of Christ, Anabaptists such as Mennonite and Amish, Schwarzenau Brethren / German Baptists, Seventh-Day Adventists, some Methodists and most Pentecostals.

The Russian Orthodox Church repressed Baptists prior to the 1917 revolution, and sought restrictions on Baptists and Pentecostals after being re-established after the fall of Communism.

The Seventh-day Adventist Church arose in the mid-19th century in America, having inherited seventh-day Sabbatarianism from the Seventh-day Baptists.

Several Christian denominations, such as the Seventh-day Adventist Church, the Seventh Day Baptists, and the True Jesus Church, observe seventh-day Sabbath.

Samuel and Tacy Hubbard, two members of the First Baptist Church of Newport, pastored by John Clarke ( 1609 – 76 ), withdrew from that church and joined with Stephen Mumford, a Seventh Day Baptist from England, and 4 others, covenanting to meet together for worship, calling themselves Sabbatarian Baptists.

Comparatively, the UMC stands to the right of liberal and progressive Protestant groups such as the United Church of Christ and the Episcopal Church on certain issues ( especially regarding sexuality ), but to the left of historically conservative evangelical traditions such as the Southern Baptists and Pentecostalism, in regard to theological matters such as social justice and Biblical interpretation.

Baptists, Lutherans, and Anglicans are some of the larger and older Western denominations outside the Roman Catholic Church.

" Nevertheless, other denominations, such as the Baptists, Methodists, Seventh-day Adventist Church as well as Puritans and Shakers, have embraced the term " People of the Book.

Many denominations, such as Baptists and the Methodist Church, which are notable for their mission work, have therefore embraced the term " People of the Book.

The Church of the Brethren is a Christian denomination with origins in the Schwarzenau Brethren ( ' Schwarzenau New Baptists ') that was organized in 1708 by Alexander Mack in Schwarzenau, Germany.

The most predominant denominations among residents in Douglas County who adhere to a religion are Southern Baptists ( 22. 95 %), Church of the Nazarene ( 16. 28 %), and Mormons ( 13. 70 %).

* 1170 – Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, is assassinated inside Canterbury Cathedral by followers of King Henry II ; he subsequently becomes a saint and martyr in the Anglican Church and the Catholic Church.

The Church of the Holy Trinity, Gibraltar becomes Cathedral for the Diocese.

Paul defended the encyclical, saying “ It does not surprise the Church that she becomes, like her divine Founder, a ‘ sign of contradiction ’; yet she does not, because of this, cease to proclaim with humble firmness the entire moral law, both the natural law and the law of the Gospel.

Luthor immediately sets out to build a church, which he names the Luthoran Church ; he becomes spokesman for a new procedure, created by the Everyman Project, that engineers ordinary citizens to develop superpowers.

* 2005 – John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York.

* 1986 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black man to lead the Anglican Church in South Africa.

* October 2 – George Albert Smith becomes president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

* The Seventh-day Adventist Church becomes officially established in 1863 in Battle Creek, Michigan.

** Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.

* In Coptic Orthodox Christianity, Mark the Evangelist becomes the first Pope of Alexandria, thus establishing the Christian Church in Africa.

* May 15 – Aboard a Boeing tri-motor, Ellen Church becomes the first airline stewardess ( the flight was from Oakland, California to Chicago, Illinois ).

* September 2 – During what becomes known as the September Massacres of the French Revolution, rampaging mobs slaughter 3 Roman Catholic Church bishops and more than 200 priests.

* October 8 – October 10 – The Union of Brest: The Ukrainian Church west of the Dnipro becomes known as the Ukrainian rite of Catholicism, whereas the East officially renounces the authority of the Pope.

Peter thus becomes the first convert to the Anglican Church in India.

Ultimately anyone who participates in the class struggle is a member of the " people "; the " Church of the people " becomes the antagonist of the hierarchical Church.

* The Scandinavian city of Lund becomes a see of the Roman Catholic Church.

This split within the Catholic Church becomes known as the Western Schism.

* Hilarion of Kiev becomes the first native metropolitan of the Eastern Orthodox Church in Kievan Rus.

Through spending more time than usual in prayer and meditation on the Holy Scripture and the Holy Traditions of the Church, the believer in Christ becomes through the grace of God more godlike.

* Gabriel I of Alexandria becomes Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

Typically, one becomes a member of the Church by baptism and chrismation performed by a priest as a single service.

Through Chrismation every member of the Church becomes a prophet, and receives a share in the royal priesthood of Christ ; all Christians alike, because they are chrismated, are called to act as conscious witnesses to the Truth.

" The bread and wine, offered by Melchizedek in sacrifice in the old covenant ( Genesis 14: 18 ; Psalm 110: 4 ), are transformed through the Mass into the body and blood of Christ ( see transubstantiation ; note: the Orthodox Church does not hold as dogma, as do Catholics, the doctrine of transubstantiation, preferring rather to not make an assertion regarding the " how " of the sacraments ), and the offering becomes one with that of Christ on the cross.

The women's committee of St. David's Church will hold its annual pre-Fair pink parade, a dessert bridge and fashion show at 1 p.m. on Monday, April 17, in the chapel assembly room, Wayne.

Even his old literary home, Punch, where the When We Were Very Young verses had first appeared, was ultimately to reject him, as Christopher Milne details in his autobiography The Enchanted Places, although Methuen continued to publish whatever Milne wrote, including the long poem ' The Norman Church ' and an assembly of articles entitled Year In, Year Out ( which Milne likened to a benefit night for the author ).

In standard Greek usage, the older word " ecclesia " ( ἐκκλησία, ekklesía, literally " assembly ", " congregation ", or the place where such a gathering occurs ) was retained to signify both a specific edifice of Christian worship ( a " church "), and the overall community of the faithful ( the " Church ").

The Church declared the first sessions of the Council of Constance an invalid and illicit assembly of Bishops, gathered under the authority of John XXIII.

* Episcopal Conference, an official assembly of bishops in a territory of the Roman Catholic Church

Bauckham states that the method of killing James by stoning, and the description provided by Josephus via the assembly of the Sanhedrin of judges are consistent with the policies of the Temple authorities towards the early Christian Church at the time.

Since the main object of the king in holding a national assembly was to collect money, the Church could not be left out and so they came to Parliament.

The Westminster Assembly ( an assembly of clergy of the Church of England ) was called in 1643.

The assembly now lost all patience ; Desiderius was seized and dragged to the Church of St. Lucy, where he was forcibly vested in the red cope and given the name of Victor on 24 May 1086.

This congregation / presbytery / synod / general assembly schema is based on the historical structure of the larger Presbyterian churches, such as the Church of Scotland or the Presbyterian Church ( U. S. A .); some bodies, such as the Presbyterian Church in America and the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, skip one of the steps between congregation and General Assembly, and usually the step skipped is the Synod.

In the following year a general church assembly endeavoured to unite all the congregations in a common government, but Postma's consistory rejected these overtures, and from that date the Separatist ( or Dopper ) Church has had an independent existence.

The head of state of the Vatican is the pope, elected by the College of Cardinals, an assembly of Senatorial-princes of the Church, who are usually clerics, appointed as Ordinaries, but in the past have also included men who were not bishops nor clerics.

For example, the rules of the Church of Scotland include the Barrier Act, which requires that certain major changes to the polity of the church be referred to the presbyteries, before being enacted by the general assembly.

Ivan revised the law code ( known as the sudebnik ), created a standing army ( the streltsy ), established the Zemsky Sobor or assembly of the land, a public, consensus-building assembly, the council of the nobles ( known as the Chosen Council ), and confirmed the position of the Church with the Council of the Hundred Chapters, which unified the rituals and ecclesiastical regulations of the entire country.

In Swiss and Southern German Reformed churches, where the Reformed churches are organized as regionally defined independent churches ( such as Evangelical Reformed Church of Zurich or Reformed Church of Berne ), the synod corresponds to the general assembly of Presbyterian churches.

He concluded by expressing his dissatisfaction with the organization of the assembly, and alleged that the Contra-Remonstrants had prevented an accurate representation of the Arminian supporters in the Dutch Reformed Church with votes in the synod.

The court decided that Russia's refusal to consider the Church of Scientology's application for registration as a religious community " had been a violation of Article 11 ( freedom of assembly and association ) of the European Convention on Human Rights read in the light of Article 9 ( freedom of thought, conscience and religion ).

The assembly, influenced by the veneration in which the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius were held in the Eastern Church, condemned Barlaam, who recanted.

The WMC headquarters is itself located on the campus of the Lake Junaluska Conference and Retreat Center, an assembly for the Southeastern Jurisdiction of the United Methodist Church which hosts Annual Conferences and other United Methodist and religious conferences and events.

The assembly went bankrupt, but in 1936, Methodist bishops raised $ 100, 000 to pay off the debt, and the Methodist Church took over in 1940.