The area was part of the ancient Monmouthshire parish of Mynyddislwyn until the late 19th century.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

All have access to the sea and are named after the saints to whom their ancient parish churches are dedicated.

Baptismal records, parish records, ancient land grants, the Annals of the Four Masters, and books by O ' Hart, McLysaght, and O ' Brien were all used in researching the history of the Mooney family name.

Historically part of the parish of St Margaret in the county of Middlesex, the name Westminster was the ancient description for the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the government of England ( and later the British government ) for almost a thousand years.

** Hackney ( parish ), the ancient church parish, part of the modern London borough

The ancient parish of Llandaff included a wide area.

Located northeast of Charing Cross, it was historically an agrarian hamlet in the ancient parish of Stepney, Middlesex.

Biggin Hill was an ancient parish county of Kent, in the Diocese of Rochester, and under the Local Government Act 1894 formed part of Bromley Urban District.

Camberwell St Giles formed an ancient, and later civil, parish in the Brixton hundred of Surrey.

It was historically an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, with an agrarian and fishing economy.

Clerkenwell St James was an ancient parish in the Finsbury division of the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex.

It was historically a rural village in the county of Essex and formed an ancient parish.

Feltham formed an ancient parish in the Spelthorne hundred of Middlesex.

It formed an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, becoming a municipal borough in 1933, and has formed part of Greater London since 1965.

It was historically an ancient parish in the former county of Middlesex.

St. Mary's Church is the original ancient parish church.

Harold Wood formed a ward in the ancient parish of Hornchurch, although the area now around the station was in the North End ward.

Although locally situated within Essex the ancient Hornchurch parish formed the independent Liberty of Havering and was outside county administration.

It historically formed a large ancient parish in the county of Essex that became the liberty of Havering.

Much of Hornsey was built up in Edwardian times, but the tower of the original parish church still stands in its ancient graveyard in Hornsey High Street, at the centre of the old village.

Mill Hill was part of the ancient civil parish of Hendon within the historic county boundaries of Middlesex.

It was an ancient parish and the site of the early administration of the county of Surrey.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

There is an ancient and venerable tradition in the church ( which derives, however, from the heritage of the Greeks rather than from the Bible ) that God is completely independent of his creation and so has no need of men for accomplishing his work in the world.

In 1929 a new church in Bath was dedicated to Saint Ælfheah, designed by Giles Gilbert Scott in homage to the ancient Roman church of Santa Maria in Cosmedin.

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.

Mandatory priestly celibacy is not a doctrine, or dogma, of the Church ( examples of Catholic doctrine would be the principle of the absolute respect for life or the belief in the Assumption and Immaculate Conception ) but a church rule or discipline, like the use of the vernacular ( local ) language in Mass or the ancient rule of Lenten fasting and abstinence.

Methodists and Presbyterians believe their denominations owe their origins to the Apostles and the early church, but do not claim descent from ancient church structures such as the episcopate.

Who can read the ancient patriarchal blessings, recorded in the bible, for the benefit of the church, without a heart filled with joy …?

The Church Fathers interpret Ezekiel's vision of the human likeness upon the sapphire throne () as a prophecy of the Incarnation of the Logos from the Theotokos ( Virgin Mary ), who in many ancient church hymns is called the " living Throne of God ".

While critics point to the common practice of pseudonymous writing in the ancient world, they usually fail to point out that this practice, though common in the culture, was not common in personal letters, and was categorically rejected by the early church ( cf.

The church was built before 1295 and the church was a seat of Archbishopric of Ohrid ( ancient ) | Ohrid Archbishopric.

The Roman church of San Gavino is Gavoi's foremost sacred spot, through there are eight other ancient churches in the village.

But the previously mentioned demiurge of evil ... gradually brought back idolatry under the appearance of Christianity. It was also seen as a departure from ancient church tradition, of which there was a written record opposing religious images.

and Baltic countries are the historic national primates or See of the original Catholic Church and some ancient cathedrals and parishes in the Lutheran church were constructed many centuries before the Reformation.

It is viewed as a product of the agenda of Liber Pontificalis — this section of the book was probably written in the late fifth century — to show an ancient pattern of the earliest bishops of Rome ruling the church by papal decree.

* Pantheon, Rome, now a Catholic church, once a temple to the gods of ancient Rome

It is possible that Callixtus was martyred around 222, perhaps during a popular uprising, but the legend that he was thrown down a well has no historical foundation, though the church does contain an ancient well.

In the effort to Christianize Rome, Zachary built the original church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva over an ancient temple to Minerva near the Pantheon.

Aside from the complete rebuilding of the ancient church of Santa Maria in Trastevere, which boldly features Ionic capitals from former colonnades in the Baths of Caracalla and other richly detailed spolia from Roman monuments, the remaining years of this Pope's life were almost as barren of permanent political results as the first had been.

After he became pope, he beautified his ancient church of St. Sabina with mosaics and metalwork bearing his name that were still intact as late as the 16th century.

Among the Paleo-orthodoxy and emerging church Presbyterians, clergy are moving away from the traditional black Geneva gown and reclaiming not only the more ancient Eucharist vestments of alb and chasuble, but also cassock and surplice ( typically a full length Old English style surplice which resembles the Celtic alb, an ungirdled liturgical tunic of the old Gallican Rite ).

The SS Paranormal Division, under Oberführer Helga von Bulow, has been excavating the catacombs and crypts of an ancient church within the village.