The diocese had suffered a serious raid from the Welsh in 1055, and during his administration, Ealdred continued the rebuilding of the cathedral church as well as securing the cathedral chapter's rights.

The island flourished in the early 9th century, as evidenced by church construction activity, but suffered greatly from Arab raids originating from Crete.

In, the man, having repented and suffered the punishment " inflicted of many ," is restored to the church.

While he was saying Roman Catholic Mass in the parish church on Holy Innocents ' Day, 28 December 1384, he suffered a stroke, and died on the last day of the month.

The reputations of both Damasus and the Roman church in general suffered greatly due to these two unseemly incidents.

Christians in North Africa had not suffered persecution for many years ; the church was assured and lax.

While Funafuti suffered air attacks during 1943, casualties were limited, although on one occasion on 23 April 1943, 680 people took refuge in the concrete walled, pandanus-thatched church.

The Westminster Confession of Faith ( part of the Reformed tradition in Calvinism and influential in the Presbyterian church ), in Article four of Chapter eight, states: " On the third day He arose from the dead, with the same body in which He suffered, with which also he ascended into heaven, and there sits at the right hand of His Father, making intercession, and shall return, to judge men and angels, at the end of the world.

It was rebuilt in the 15th century after Stirling suffered a catastrophic fire in 1405, and is reputed to be the only surviving church in the United Kingdom apart from Westminster Abbey to have held a coronation.

Without the addition of buttresses, bracing arches and anchor irons over the succeeding centuries, it would have suffered the fate of spires on later great ecclesiastical buildings ( such as Malmesbury Abbey ) and fallen down ; instead, Salisbury remains the tallest church spire in the UK.

In 1559, during the Scottish Reformation, the abbey suffered further damage when a mob destroyed the altars and looted the rest of the church.

In both 1602 and 1699 the church suffered extensive fires after lightning strikes to the tower.

The report was applauded as an elegant defense of the doctrine of separation of church and state, but again Johnson did not escape charges of conflict of interest due to his having friends who were contracted to haul mail, and who would have suffered financially from the proposal.

All but the bell tower, still standing today, was destroyed by fire and the church again suffered devastating damage during the bombing campaigns of the Second World War, resulting in the installation of a temporary church within the bombed-out building.

The town suffered in the plague of 1349, but recovered enough, and with encouragement from the Canons, and growing general prosperity, to have a new church ( now St. Mary's, behind the buildings on the south side of Market Hill )) constructed with limestone from the Wash and decorated with Thetford flint.

Thomas Madden represents a view almost diametrically opposed to that of Asbridge ; while the crusade was certainly linked to church reform and attempts to assert papal authority, he argues that it was most importantly a pious struggle to liberate fellow Christians, who, Madden claims, " had suffered mightily at the hands of the Turks ".

The church suffered serious damage when part of its roof was ripped off in the storm.

The interior of the church suffered water damage from the rain.

Maassluis ' ancient church suffered a lot in the second world war when it was bombed by allied bombers.

The church suffered through some difficult times during the remainder of the 1700's.

The town suffered from warfare and the church tower was not rebuilt until 1544, when Prince-Bishop Johannes Dantiscus ordered 20 zentner copper from Anton Fugger in Augsburg.

Like York Minster, the church rests on a base of sand and has suffered from subsidence.

Both suffered in 993 when Viking raiders sacked the village and burnt down the original church.

This caused a split within the Danish church, as it possibly forced Eskil into exile around 1161, despite Abaslon's attempts to keep the Danish church united.

Eastern Orthodox tradition tells that the pagans directed the stream of a river against the sanctuary of St. Michael there to destroy it, but Michael the Archangel appeared and split the rock by lightning to give a new bed to the stream, diverting the flow away from the church and sanctifying forever the waters which came from the gorge.

Upon his death, his will specified that his estate be split equally between the synagogue and St. Thomas ’ Protestant church.

Council of Basel, Ferrara and Florence ( 1431 – 1445 ) addressed church reform and reunion with the Eastern Churches, but split into two parties.

Disagreement about the limits of his authority was one of the causes of the Great Schism, conventionally dated to the year 1054, which split the church into the Catholic Church in the West, headed by the Bishop of Rome, and the Orthodox Church, led by the four eastern patriarchs.

When the Christian church split in 1054 between the East and Rome, the region of southern Albania retained its ties to Constantinople while the north reverted to the jurisdiction of Rome.

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.

Disputes over slavery placed the church in difficulty in the first half of the 19th century, with the northern church leaders fearful of a split with the South, and reluctant to take a stand.

The church in Hungary split in 1974-5 over the question of interference by the communist state.

The Westminster Divines were, on the other hand, divided over questions of church polity, and split into factions supporting a reformed episcopacy, presbyterianism, congregationalism, and Erastianism.

In 1837, the church was split by the Old School-New School Controversy.

In middle life ( about 207 ), he was attracted to the " New Prophecy " of Montanism, and seems to have split from the mainstream church.

In 1830, the Methodist Protestant Church split from the Methodist Episcopal Church over the issue of laity having a voice and vote in the administration of the church, insisting that clergy should not be the only ones to have any determination in how the church was to be operated.

The election of a bishop did not aid much, either, as Diocletian's persecution had split the Italian church into competing factions over the issue of apostasy.

After the Beissel split, all later splits in the church were based on doctrinal differences.

Not everyone initially wanted to move the church building ; the vote to move was narrowly split.

Years later the church split, and the original name became Old Sarepta.

This was due in part to the Methodist discipline of freeing slaves, a belief which later led to a fundamental split in that church.

* Mar Thoma VI ( 1765 – 1808 ) – ( 1765 – 1808 ) Consecrated by Marthoma V. On June 1770, to avoid a split in the church, he accepted re-consecration and the title Dionysius from Antiochan bishops.

Amersham is split into two distinct areas: Old Amersham, set in the valley of the River Misbourne, which contains the 13th century parish church of St. Mary's and several old pubs and coaching inns ; and Amersham-on-the-Hill, which grew rapidly around the railway station in the early part of the 20th century.

Laestadians in Finland are part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, but in America, where there is no official Lutheran church, they founded their own denomination, which split into several sub-groups in the mid-20th Century.