Around the end of the 1st century, the church's organization becomes clearer in historical documents.

The organization will not appoint ' practising ' homosexuals to posts as ministers, preferring the heterosexuals " whose values are consistent with the church's philosophy.

Taylor's wife Margaret Young Taylor was a member of the inaugural general presidency of what is today the church's Young Women organization.

The central organization embraces a modified presbyterian system: ministers meet in sectional, district, and general conferences to elect officers and to conduct the church's affairs.

They had five children, including Richard G. Hinckley, a general authority of the LDS Church since 2005, and Virginia Hinckley Pearce, a former member of the general presidency of the church's Young Women organization.

It has sometimes been referred to as a " Bickertonite church " or " Rigdonite organization " based upon the church's claims of succession through William Bickerton and Sidney Rigdon.

Historian Michael Marquardt argues that the evidence suggests the organization occurred in Manchester, and that the confusion was likely due to the effect of memory tending to conflate memories of several meetings in Manchester and Fayette years earlier Critics suggest that the location of the organization was intentionally changed in 1834 around the same time the church's name was changed to the " Church of the Latter Day Saints ", in order to make it seem like the new church organization was different from the " Church of Christ ", as a tactic to frustrate the church's creditors and avoid payment of debts.

After Lawson's death in 1961, a rising minister in the organization, William L. Bonner, proposed a change in the church's governmental structure.

The stake auxiliaries correspond to the ward-level auxiliaries, and include the Stake Relief Society ( the church's women's organization ), the Stake Primary ( for children under 12 years of age ), the Stake Young Men and Young Women, and the Stake Sunday School organizations.

In 1880, Latter-day Saints commemorated the Golden Jubilee of the church's formal organization in 1830 ; tens of thousands of people in hundreds of communities participated in very enthusiastic festivities.

It acts as a Sunday school organization for the church's children under the age of 12.

As General Superintendent of the church's Sunday School organization from 1918 to 1934, McKay built LDS seminary buildings near public high schools throughout the state of Utah.

A church's hierarchical importance is often derived from its historical importance in its organization.

As a member of the Seventy, Holland was a counselor in the general presidency of the church's Young Men organization from 1989 to 1990.

The church's contention that its literature was exempt from legal action because it was issued by a religious organization was rejected by the court as irrelevant.

Their Fayette home is the traditional site of the church's organization.

Also at the conference, the new church organization formally returned its name to the 1830 church's original name, the " Church of Christ.

Boynton was chosen as one of the church's apostles at the organization of the initial Quorum of Twelve Apostles on February 14, 1835.

According to Vicki Aznaran, former Inspector General of the Religious Technology Center, the church's highest ecclesiastical organization, The Way to Happiness Foundation is " a front group to get people into Scientology " and the book is designed " to make Scientology palatable to the masses.

Joseph Smith echoed Cowdery's statement in 1842, in a letter to a Chicago newspaper editor outlining the church's basic beliefs.

Unification Church beliefs are based on the Bible and are explained in the church's textbook, Divine Principle.

Although United Methodist practices and interpretation of beliefs have evolved over time, these practices and beliefs can be traced to the writings of the church's founders, especially John Wesley and Charles Wesley ( Anglicans ), but also Philip William Otterbein and Martin Boehm ( United Brethren ), and Jacob Albright ( Evangelical ).

These changes in the church's practices and beliefs were very controversial, leading to the formation of breakaway churches such as the Remnant Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ; in 1994, former church historian Richard P. Howard estimated that 25, 000 members had left to join such groups.

As a " first-day " body of Adventist Christians established by The Advent Christian General Conference in 1860, the church's beliefs include " conditional immortality " and a form of " soul sleep ".

The church's official statement of beliefs are comparable to those of Armstrong's original Radio Church of God and the other WCG offshoots.

The Methodist Articles of Religion state the church's primary beliefs.

As Barbara Palmer of the Stanford Report stated, Stanford " had her religious beliefs literally carved into the church's sandstone walls ".

" by stating, " the King James Bible was neither inspired nor preserved " Schaap's departure from the church's previously-held beliefs caused a stir amongst older church members who felt Schaap deceived them in order to take over the pastorate.

Due to these beliefs, in its Spring 2005 " Intelligence Report ", the Southern Poverty Law Center named the FLDS Church to its " hate group " listing because of the church's teachings on race, which include a fierce condemnation of interracial relationships.

The church's cloisters are among Donato Bramante's most beautiful creations.

The Bible and Eddy's textbook on Christian healing, Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, are together the church's key doctrinal sources and have been ordained as the church's " dual impersonal pastor ".

Christian Science practitioners are listed in the Christian Science Journal, with the permission of the church's Board of Directors, their only form of official recognition by the church and among the Christian Science laity.

Because much physical and spiritual violence was done to Jews in the name of Jesus and his followers, and because evangelism is still an active aspect of many church's activities, many Jews are uncomfortable with discussing Jesus and treat him as a non-person.

The Church of Christ ( Temple Lot ) contends that the thousands of changes made to the original revelations as published in the Book of Commandments ( including the change of the church's name ) are not doctrinal and result from Joseph Smith's fall from his original calling.

The delegates to the General Synod of the ARP Church are the elder representatives elected from each church's Session and all ministers from all presbyteries that comprise the Church ( excluding ministers and elders from the independent ARP Synods of Mexico and Pakistan ).

The Seventh-day Adventist Church, established in 1863, believes Ellen G. White, one of the church's founders, was given the spiritual gift of prophecy, and are generally skeptical toward other claims.

The Church revised and expanded this document in June, removing acknowledgment of such sentiment as a matter of current church practice, instead declaring that the church's current stands are not anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish — in part because they reflect criticisms of Israel meted by Jews and Israelis.

They are outlined in the church's textbook, Divine Principle.

" Individual congregations (" wards ") are led by a Bishop or branch president who was called to his position through revelation by the church's hierarchical leadership, and he serves until released from the position.

Deacons, like priests and bishops, are ordinary ministers of the sacrament of Baptism and can serve as the church's witness at the sacrament of Holy Matrimony, which the bride and groom administer to each other ( though if the exchange of vows takes place in a wedding Mass, or Nuptial Mass, the Mass is celebrated by the priest and the deacon acts as another witness ).

The church's boundaries are actually protected on one side by the Town Walls, although originally St. John's was a small Saxon building.

Their imperial crowns were afterwards frequently donated to the church and are kept in the church's treasury — medieval crowns and those of more recent monarchs-although other monarchs have given their crowns and other regalia to various other churches.

All of the church's medieval glass was destroyed by William Dowsing in 1644 ; the only stained glass windows in the church are the east windows over the altar ( 1954, by Sir Ninian Comper ) and the west window below the grand tower.

Protestants who ignore or attack the historic church's conclusions are at best bound to fight the same fights all over again, running the same risk of overcorrecting in response to current doctrinal disputes.

The church's most visited section is the crypt where the remains of Canute and his brother Benedict are on display.

Even to this day, the two bells in the church's belltower, named Maria and Salvator and cast in 1517 by Hendrick de Tremonia of Dordrecht, are rung every evening at nine o ' clock.

Luciano used his influence to help get the materials to build a church at the prison, which became famous for being one of the only freestanding churches in the New York State correctional system and also for the fact that on the church's altar are two of the original doors from the Victoria, the ship of Ferdinand Magellan.

Domes in Romanesque architecture are generally found within crossing towers at the intersection of a church's nave and transept, which conceal the domes externally.

The two remaining provinces, constituted into 12 dioceses, are governed in common by a General Synod of clergy and laity led by the Archbishop of Armagh ( styled " Primate of All Ireland "), currently the Most Reverend Alan Harper ; the church's other archbishop is the Archbishop of Dublin ( styled " Primate of Ireland "), the Most Reverend Michael Jackson.

The church's central offices are in Rathmines, adjacent to the Church of Ireland College of Education, and the Church's library is in Churchtown.