After the months in Europe, she returned to Boston and became active in church and community life.

In 1899 Schweitzer became a deacon at the church Saint-Nicolas of Strasbourg.

Although he was committed to maintaining what the church had defined at Nicaea, Constantine was also bent on pacifying the situation and eventually became more lenient toward those condemned and exiled at the council.

There were no longer church lands available with which to conciliate the nobles, the burden of taxation was heavy, and Albert's rule became unpopular.

Thus the possibility of re-incorporating Portugal ( up to then Southern Galicia ) into a Kingdom of Portugal and Galicia as before was eliminated and Afonso became sole ruler ( Duke of Portugal ) after demands for independence from the county's church and nobles.

In 1246, conflicts between his brother, the king, and the church became unbearable.

The year after his marriage Cuyp became the deacon of the reformed church.

It could also be that he became more active in the church under his wife's guidance.

The city of Alcobaça became notable after the first king of Portugal, Afonso Henriques, decided to build there a church to celebrate the Conquest of Santarém, to the Moors, in 1147.

A town that only became notable in the 12th century when it became the site for the construction of Portugal's largest church.

The efficient organization of the Roman Empire became the template for the organisation of the church in the 4th century, particularly after Constantine's Edict of Milan.

During the period of the English Civil War, the role of bishops as wielders of political power and as upholders of the established church became a matter of heated political controversy.

It would have been very strange indeed for Paul to have omitted the fact that the apostles and elders of the Jerusalem church had not laid circumcision as a requirement upon the Gentiles considering the topic of the epistle after it became a controversy in Galatia.

During the 20th century, the church grew substantially and became an international organization.

The church became a strong and public champion of monogamy and the nuclear family, and at times played a prominent role in political matters.

The Church became overwhelmingly Gentile sometime in the 4th century, the era of Constantine I and Christianity and the birth of the State church of the Roman Empire.

After the Roman Empire became officially Christian, see Edict of Thessalonica, the term came by extension to refer to a large and important church that has been given special ceremonial rites by the Pope.

The style was used in bronze by Bernini for his spectacular St. Peter's baldachin, actually a ciborium ( which displaced Constantine's columns ), and thereafter became very popular with Baroque and Rococo church architects, above all in Latin America, where they were very often used, especially on a small scale, as they are easy to produce in wood by turning on a lathe ( hence also the style's popularity for spindles on furniture and stairs ).

Through his simple message Cyril became recognized as one of the most profound and admired Bishops in church history, which ultimately led to his canonization by the Christian church.

The church became the seat of the first Latin Patriarchs, and was also the site of the kingdom's scriptorium.

This right remained a bone of contention between the church authorities and the slowly emancipating universities, but was granted by the pope to the University of Paris in 1213 where it became a universal license to teach ( licentia ubiquie docendi ).

After he completed his studies, Bishop Martin Bazan and Prior Diego d ' Achebes appointed Dominic to the cathedral chapter and he became a regular canon under the Rule of St. Augustine and the Constitutions for the cathedral church of Osma.

One of her first moves as queen was the establishment of an English Protestant church, of which she became the Supreme Governor.

The good feeling which exists between these two important church figures is now well known in England.

there was no Martian concept to match it -- unless one took `` church '' and `` worship '' and `` God '' and `` congregation '' and many other words and equated them to the totality of the only world he had known during growing-waiting then forced the concept back into English in that phrase which had been rejected ( by each differently ) by Jubal, by Mahmoud, by Digby.

Very little is known of the church under Alfred.

This order is known from a bull of Pope Gregory XI addressed to the monks of the church of St Ambrose outside Milan.

As an architect he is best known for replacing the old church of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople in 532 ; his daring plans for the church strikingly displayed his knowledge.

The earliest record of a settlement at Ajaccio having a name ancestral to its name is the exhortation in Epistle 77 written in 601 CE of Gregory the great to the Defensor Boniface, one of two known rectors of the early Corsican church, not to leave Aleria and Adjacium without bishops.

Almost everything that is known of Bede's life is contained in the last chapter of his Historia Ecclesiastica, a history of the church in England.

In the 21st century, the more senior bishops of the Church of England continue to sit in the House of Lords of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, as representatives of the established church, and are known as Lords Spiritual.

It is the largest church originating on American soil, and it is the largest denomination in the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith during the period of religious revival known as the Second Great Awakening.

After identifying a need for a church for Afrikaans speakers living in Holland, a church was established in Leusden and is known as Suiderkruis Kerk.

Saint Columba ( 7 December 521 – 9 June 597 AD )— also known as Colum Cille, or Chille ( Old Irish, meaning " dove of the church "), Colm Cille ( Irish ), Calum Cille ( Scottish Gaelic ), Colum Keeilley ( Manx Gaelic ) and Kolban or Kolbjørn ( Old Norse )— was a Gaelic Irish missionary monk who propagated Christianity among the Picts during the Early Medieval Period.

Congregationalist polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of church governance in which every local church congregation is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or " autonomous ".

The Council of Chalcedon was a church council held from October 8 to November 1, 451 AD, at Chalcedon ( a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor ), on the Asian side of the Bosporus, known in modern times as Istanbul.

Large crucifixes high across the central axis of a church are known by the Old English term rood.

* In France, the Dominicans are known as Jacobins, because their first convent in Paris was built near the church of Saint Jacques, ( St. James ) and Jacques ( James ) is Jacobus in Latin.

The local Evangelist – Patriarchs of the church were governed by an individual with church-wide authority known as the Presiding Patriarch.

Æthelberht provided the new church with land in Canterbury, at what came to be known as St Augustine's Abbey.

For much of the written history of Christianity, episcopal government was the only known form of church organization.

The work also describes traditional religious practices at the oak of Mamre as though they were still happening, while they are known to have been suppressed soon after 325, when a church was built on the site.

In 1634, Borromini received his first major independent commission to design the church, cloister and monastic buildings of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane ( also known as San Carlino ).

) show that Apollos was known to Paul and the church at the time of writing, which would preclude the first recorded visit to Ephesus ( See Acts 18: 24-28 ).

Another important church built in the 11th century is the Patron Saint church of San Giovanni Battista, located in the oldest section of the village also known as " Su Piggiu ".