This allegorical interpretation was applied to the church by many church fathers.

* Cell ( archaeology ) The term may be applied to a monks church in Ireland, usually early Christian Place names in Ireland

The term cardinal at one time applied to any priest permanently assigned or incardinated to a church, or specifically to the senior priest of an important church, based on the Latin cardo ( hinge ), meaning " principal " or " chief ".

Christians have applied theological criteria to assess the teachings of non-orthodox movements throughout church history.

Ephrem, in his late fifties, applied himself to ministry in his new church, and seems to have continued his work as a teacher, perhaps in the School of Edessa.

The church cites the AP Stylebook, which states, " The term Mormon is not properly applied to the other Latter Day Saints churches that resulted from the split after Smith ’ s death.

In the United States, the LDS Church has applied for a trademark on " Mormon " as applied to religious services ; however, the United States Patent and Trademark Office rejected the application, stating that the term " Mormon " was too generic, and is popularly understood as referring to a particular kind of church, similar to " Presbyterian " or " Methodist ", rather than a service mark.

Christians called themselves mīlitēs, " enrolled soldiers " of Christ, members of his militant church, and applied to non-Christians the term applied by soldiers to all who were " not enrolled in the army ".

The term Unitarian is sometimes applied to those who belong to a Unitarian church but who do not hold a Unitarian theological belief.

The former term is very often applied to groups affiliated with a church ( whether or not they actually occupy the choir ) and the second to groups that perform in theatres or concert halls, but this distinction is far from rigid.

However, greed ( as seen by the church ) is applied to a very excessive or rapacious desire and pursuit of material possessions.

More and more young women applied to become members, and church recognition came in 1583.

One major difference with French law is the absence of the formal separation between church and state: several mainstream denominations of the Christian church as well as the Jewish faith benefit from state funding, despite principles applied rigorously in the rest of France.

In what is still a matter of debate, there are a number of believed origins of this nickname that at first applied to the tower and is now frequently used to describe the whole church.

Over the years distinguishing colors and ornamentation came to be applied to the mantle to distinguish monastics of higher positions within the church, while still reminding them of the need for monastic humility.

The more modern and safe method of gold electroplating was applied for the first time in gilding the domes of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow, the tallest Eastern Orthodox church in the world.

Literary evidence exists that the idea of the cosmic temple had been applied to the Christian basilica by the end of the 4th century, in the form of a speech by Eusebius on a church in Tyre.

An early instance of the Queen Anne manner applied to a church or chapel.

The term originated in the medieval church, where it signified a post without any responsibility for the " care of souls ", the regular liturgical and pastoral functions of a cleric, but came to be applied to any post, secular or ecclesiastical, that involved little or no actual work.

Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.

A minister should not stay `` beyond the time that his leadership should benefit '' his church, he wrote, `` for he becomes ordinary.

We do not defeat the good ones with this cruelty, but we add to their burden, while expecting them to bestow saintliness upon us in return for ostentatious church attendance and a few bucks a week, American cash.

The church truly is not a rest home for saints, but a hospital for sinners.

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 were two liquor saloons not very far from the church, one white, that is conducted for white people with a side entrance for Negroes ; ;

The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.

When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.

Now, if I were you I would just plan to repair the old church so it would last for five or ten years.

And for him to leave this job now without accomplishing anything would mean practically the end of his career in the Methodist church, if not in all churches.

Along Wappinger Creek in Dutchess County, past the white church at Fishkill, past Verplanck's Point on the east bank of the Hudson, to the white salt-crusted roads of the Long Island Rockaways there was a watching and an activity of preparing for something explosive to happen.

Even Rector himself was prey to this spirit of competition and he knew it, not for a more exalted office in the hierarchy of the church -- his ambitions for the bishopry had died very early in his career -- but for the one clear victory he had talked about to the colonel.

He was not sure how much of this desire was due to his devotion to the church and how much was his own ego, demanding to be satisfied, for the two were intertwined and could not be separated.

He could no longer build anything, whether a private residence in his Pennsylvania county or a church in Brazil, without it being obvious that he had done it, and while here and there he was taken to task for again developing the same airy technique, they were such fanciful and sometimes even playful buildings that the public felt assured by its sense of recognition after a time, a quality of authentic uniqueness about them, which, once established by an artist as his private vision, is no longer disputable as to its other values.

During these early years the repair of watches and clocks and the building of special clocks for church steeples formed an important part of the young man's occupation.

On the one hand, there are ecumenists who are so stirred by the crises of the church in its encounter with the world at large that they have no eyes for what the church is doing in their own town.

Likewise, the ecumenist may become so absorbed in the conflict of the church with the totalitarian state in East Germany, the precarious situation of the church in revolutionary China, and the anguish of the church over apartheid in South Africa that he loses close contact with the parish church in its unspectacular but indispensable ministry of worship, pastoral service and counseling, and Christian nurture for a face-to-face group of individuals.

The Universalists almost disappeared in Canada, outside of a small rural church in southwest Ontario, and were probably saved in the other two surviving locations by influx of Canadian Unitarians.

In the Canadian province of Quebec, the widespread rejection of the Catholic Church and secularization of its institutions in the mid 1960s, was justified frequently by charges that the church in Quebec was " Jansenist.

As church president, Taylor oversaw the expansion of the Salt Lake community, the further organization of the church hierarchy, the establishment of Mormon colonies in Wyoming, Colorado and Arizona as well as in the Canadian province of Alberta and the Mexican state of Chihuahua, and the defense of plural marriage against increasing opposition.

* They form part of the dedication of the Canadian national church in Rome.

Canadian composers were not able to focus entirely on creating new music in these years, most made their living in other musical activities such as leading choirs, church organists and teaching.

However, there were already rumblings of discontent in the church: that same year, Pierre Berton wrote The Comfortable Pew, a bestseller that was highly critical of Canadian churches, and a United Church Commission on Ministry in the 20th Century was appointed in response to growing frustration from congregations, presbyteries, and ministers about the role of ministry.

In 2005, the church urged the Canadian Parliament to vote in favour of same-sex marriage legislation ; after the legislation had been passed, the church urged the government not to reopen the issue.

The growing secularization of Canadian society and the smaller number of people living downtown meant that the church was rarely more than half full and the Sunday school had only a handful of children.

As of December 31, 2011, the Presbyterian Church in America had 1, 771 churches ( includes established churches and new church plants ) representing all 50 U. S. states, the District of Columbia, and 5 Canadian provinces.

Also nearby is the Martyrs ' Shrine, a Catholic church dedicated to the Canadian Martyrs, Jesuits who were killed during Iroquois warfare against the Huron around Georgian Bay in the 17th century.

As mission president, he presided over the Canadian Mission of the LDS Church from 1959 to 1962, supervising church missionaries who were not much younger than he was.

Notable sites in or near Midland include the Jesuit mission of Sainte-Marie among the Hurons, which is now a living museum depicting missionary life in the 17th century, and the Martyrs ' Shrine, a Roman Catholic church commemorating the Canadian Martyrs, five missionaries from Sainte-Marie who were martyred during the Huron-Iroquois wars, and the Huronia museum.

It would be located on land bought from the Canadian Pacific Railway ( CPR ); Henry John Cambie, chief engineer of CPR ′ s Pacific Division and People ′ s Warden of the new church, was a key negotiator in acquiring the property.

The Grant Memorial Baptist Church in Winnipeg is the oldest surviving Canadian BGC church.

This innovation began in 1966 by Canadian priest Jean Marc Leclerc and became so popular that it was soon moved from a small church to the Cuernavaca Cathedral.

During the process of ratifying the new church's constitution, disputes developed which split its dioceses into two American churches and a separate Canadian church.

US Global Ministries and the United Brethren Church in Canada work together under a joint ministry agreement ; two representatives from the Canadian church serve on the Global Ministries Leadership Team.

The LCC was founded in 1988 when most Canadian congregations of the St. Louis-based Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) formed an autonomous Canadian church body with a synod in Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Newton Wesley Rowell, PC ( November 1, 1867 – November 22, 1941 ) was a Canadian lawyer and politician and leading lay figure in the Methodist church.

To Cahan, a contented French-Canadian clergy could help ensure domestic peace in Canada ; to Bennett, strong leadership among English Canadian Catholics could make the church a buttress of the social order during a time of depression and questioning of the system.

The church is known for its historic links to the Irish Canadian community.