The evangelist divides history into three stages: the first ends with John the Baptist, the second consists of Jesus ' earthly ministry, and the third is the life of the church after Jesus ' resurrection.

The Roman Curia consists of a complex of offices that administer church affairs at the highest level, including the Secretariat of State, nine Congregations, three Tribunals, eleven Pontifical Councils, and seven Pontifical Commissions.

A traditional funeral service consists of a viewing ( sometimes referred to as a visitation ), a funeral service at the church of the deceased ( or at the funeral home chapel ), and a graveside committal service.

The greater part of the two collections consists of settings of the Proprium Missae for the major feasts of the church calendar, thus supplementing the Mass Ordinary cycles which Byrd had published in the 1590s.

The church consists of a vast nave of eleven bays, entered by a narthex, with a transept and short apsidal choir.

The liturgical year, also known as the church year, consists of the cycle of liturgical seasons in Christian churches which determines when feast days, including celebrations of saints, are to be observed, and which portions of Scripture are to be read either in an annual cycle or in a cycle of several years.

" In the King of the Hill episode " Reborn to Be Wild ", Bobby Hill gets into Christian rock when he goes to a church group that consists of punks who worship God through skateboarding and rock.

Wacousta consists of a general store, library, auto repair shop, a Masonic lodge, pottery studio and store, book store, an elementary school ( Wacousta Warriors ), cemetery, two parks, a church, and a few hundred houses.

The intersection today consists of the church, school ( closed after 101 years of operation at the close of the 1998-1999 school year ), a rectory built in 1966, a cemetery, and a couple of houses, surrounded by farmland on rolling hills.

The present-day church consists of the nave of the Norman abbey church, the 14th-century Lady Chapel and west wall, and a 16th-century west tower, added after the dissolution.

It consists mainly of a post office, a gas station, a flower shop, an antique shop, one or two houses, and an English-language Orthodox church.

The abbey church is built in a mixture of Ham stone, Chilmark stone and flint and consists only of the choir, central tower and transepts.

The church building consists of the Tudor tower, built in 1510, a Nave ( an 1840 construction, replacing a Norman building from 1199 and said to be unsafe ) and a Sanctuary and Vestry, added in 1914.

St. Paul is a small town in northern St. Charles County and consists its namesake Catholic church, the church picnic grounds, school, several ballfields associated with the church and school, as well as a Knights of Columbus hall.

In 1999, the Church was separated from the state and became an independent organization, but the ruling body of the church is still decided by public voting ( among members of the church ), and mostly consists of the political parties.

The church consists of all saved individuals in this present dispensation — i. e., from the " birth of the Church " in Acts until the time of the Rapture.

Opened in July 1872 by Queen Victoria, with the statue of Albert ceremonially " seated " in 1875, the memorial consists of an ornate canopy or pavilion, in the style of a Gothic ciborium over the high altar of a church, containing a statue of the prince facing south.

The church consists only of a nave and chancel with, above the former, a bellcote, much of the masonry is Norman but parts date back to Saxon times.

Two of the fifteen stained glass windows in the church of St Neot, Cornwall portray the saint: one of them consists of scenes from the life of the saint.

It is the smallest municipality in the Canton, is the only municipality without a church and it consists of two physically separated sections.

In this view, the church invisible consists of all those from every time and place who are vitally united to Christ through regeneration and salvation and who will be eternally united to Jesus Christ in eternal life.

There is also a memorial to Disraeli in the chancel in the church, erected in his honour by Queen Victoria.

The Christian Flag displayed next to the pulpit on the chancel of a church sanctuary.

On the south side of the altar via the ambulatory ( an aisle surrounding the end of the choir or chancel of a church ) is a stairway climbing to Calvary ( Golgotha ), traditionally regarded as the site of Jesus ' crucifixion and the most lavishly decorated part of the church.

Æthelberht built Justus a cathedral church in Rochester ; the foundations of a nave and chancel partly underneath the present-day Rochester Cathedral may date from that time.

The main altar, between the chancel arch and the church tabernacle, is gilded wood.

* Rood screen, a partition in a church which separates the chancel from the nave

In England, this motif usually appears in a prominent place in the church, such as the central rib of the chancel roof, or on a central rib of the nave.

The church is of the Cistercian type, with a short chancel ( 3 ), and transepts ( 4 ) with three eastward chapels to each, divided by solid walls.

Most Gothic churches, unless they are entitled chapels, are of the Latin cross ( or " cruciform ") plan, with a long nave making the body of the church, a transverse arm called the transept and, beyond it, an extension which may be called the choir, chancel or presbytery.

The church occupies the site of the ancient chancel and transepts of a large medieval Benedictine abbey, which was sacked in 1560 during the Scottish Reformation and permitted to fall into disrepair.

The interior of the church includes four 15th-century tomb-chests, some 15th-century stained glass in the chancel, medieval vestments, and a domestic cupboard of about 1500 which was once at Witham Charterhouse.

Archaeological evidence in the form of an elaborate mosaic floor similar to the one in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and multiple fragments of an elaborate marble Templon ( chancel screen ) prove that an elaborate Byzantine church or monastery or other public building stood on the Temple Mount in Byzantine times, presumably the aforementioned Holy Wisdom Church.

The hall and chapel of the infirmary extended east of this cloister, resembling in form and arrangement the nave and chancel of an aisled church.

A simple nave-and-chancel church, with a fine chancel arch.

The church, built in simple style, has a granite doorway with sloping jambs and flat lintel and a granite chancel arch.

It stretches all the way across the church, and is made up of three separate screens: a rood screen across the chancel arch and parclose screens across the north and south chancel aisles.

The roof in the chancel is painted and its height gives the church a very open feeling.

Barton Turf church, situated a mile from the village, is noted for containing a very rare surviving example of a medieval rood screen across the chancel arch.

* St. Michael's parish church, Lyneham, Wiltshire: nave roof and chancel, 1862 – 65

* St. Mary's parish church, Donnington, Berkshire: chancel, 1878

The original nave and chancel of St Giles ' church have been dated to 1335 while the nave was extended west in 1959.

The naturalist and social reformer Antonio Brady is buried in the churchyard ; an extension to the chancel of the church was constructed in his memory in 1884.

The central portion of the church, the chancel and the nave, was built in the 1200s, the north aisle in the 1400s ( as was the tower ), and the south aisle in the 1500s, along with the lychgate and the south porch.