This is also the oldest surviving non-Roman Catholic church in the New World.

Founded in 597, it is the oldest see in the English church.

; Primate: A primate is usually the bishop of the oldest church of a nation.

The Church of Saint Simeon Stylites in Aleppo, Syria is considered to be one of the oldest surviving church buildings in the world.

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 ".

Construction of Northwode Chapel by the monks of Jumiéges, Normandy, began in about 1140 and this became the present St Peter's Church and now the oldest surviving church on the Island.

* 1607 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed ; it is the oldest church still standing in the Philippines.

St. Nicholas Church, Vilnius | St. Nicholas in Vilnius, the oldest church in Lithuania

The original meaning of the adjective profane ( from Latin pro fano, " in front of " or " before, outside " the fanum, a sanctuary ) referred to items not belonging to the church, e. g., " The fort is the oldest profane building in the town, but the local monastery is older, and is the oldest building ," or " besides designing churches, he also designed many profane buildings ".

St James ’ is now the oldest Anglican church south of the Equator.

The Tsiranavor Surb Hovhannes Church of Avan ( 595 – 602 ) of Avan district which was partly damaged in the 1679 earthquake, is the city's oldest surviving church.

* The Saint Sophia Cathedral in Novgorod is completed in 1052, the oldest existent church in Russia.

* January 19 – San Agustin Church in Manila is officially completed ; it is currently the oldest church in the Philippines

* June 3 – The oldest stone church in French North America, Notre-Dame-des-Anges, is begun at Quebec City, Quebec Canada.

The oldest OCA Russian Orthodox church in the lower forty-eight states, established in 1857, is Holy Trinity Cathedral in San Francisco.

* Tórshavn Cathedral, the second oldest church in the country.

Of the thirty-seven Greek churches, the most important are the city's cathedral, the church dedicated to Our Lady of the Cave ( η Παναγία Σπηλιώτισσα ( hē Panagia Spēliōtissa )); Saint Spyridon church, wherein lies the preserved body of the patron saint of the island ; and finally the suburban church of St Jason and St Sosipater ( Αγιοι Ιάσων και Σωσίπατρος ), reputedly the oldest in the island, and named after the two saints probably the first to preach Christianity to the Corfiots.

Kerch's Church of St. John the Baptist was founded in 717, thus, it is the oldest church in Ukraine.

It was read in church, along with other epistles, some of which later became Christian canon ; and is one of the oldest extant Christian documents outside the New Testament.

* Baptistère Saint-Jean ( 4th century ) – the oldest church in France

* Église Notre-Dame-la-Grande – oldest romanesque architecture church in Europe

The oldest Protestant groups separated from the Catholic Church in the 16th century Protestant Reformation, followed in many cases by further divisions.

Many of Cairo's oldest Coptic churches, including the Hanging Church, are located along the fortress walls in a section of the city known as Coptic Cairo.

The Catholic Church has what is claimed to be the oldest continuously functioning internal legal system in Western Europe, much later than Roman law but predating evolution of modern European civil law traditions.

Malmö's oldest building is St Peter's Church.

Barratt's Chapel, built in 1780, is the oldest Methodist Church in the United States built for that purpose.

* St. Paul Baptist Church-Founded in 1867 by former slave Elijah Barnes, registered at the state and federal level as the second oldest African American Baptist Church in the state.

The Secretariat of State is the oldest dicastery in the Roman Curia, the government of the Roman Catholic Church.

The largest Unitarian denomination worldwide today is also the oldest surviving Unitarian denomination ( since 1565, first use of the term " Unitarian " 1600 ); the Unitarian Church of Transylvania ( in Romania, which is union with the Unitarian Church in Hungary ).

Barratt's Chapel, built in 1780, is the oldest Methodist Church in the United States built for that purpose.

He was the oldest child of Theodorus van Gogh, a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church, and Anna Cornelia Carbentus.

The oldest monument is the Druselturm, the Brüderkirche and the Church of St. Martin are also in part of medieval origin.

St. Anthony's ( Deir Mar Antonios ) is the oldest monastery in the world and under the patronage of the Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church.

The town's small traditional theatre and cinema, the Savoy Theatre, on Church Street, is believed to be the oldest working theatre in Wales.

The oldest Coptic writings date to the pre-Christian era ( Old Coptic ), though Coptic literature consists mostly of texts written by prominent saints of the Coptic Church such as Anthony the Great, Pachomius and Shenouda the Archimandrite.

The oldest surviving public building in the inner-city is the Anglican Church of St John the Baptist, in the suburb of Reid, which was consecrated in 1845.

The oldest church in the country, the Cook Islands Christian Church in Arutanga, was built by Papeiha ( Bora Bora ) and Vahapata ( Raiatea ), two LMS teachers Williams had left behind.

Later in life Gallagher became a Catholic priest and founded the third oldest Catholic Church in Glasgow, St. Simon's Church, Partick, the first post-reformation Catholic Church to be built in Scotland.

In 1844, he paid his first visit to the convent of Saint Catherine's Monastery, on Mount Sinai, where he found, in a trash basket, forty-four pages of what was the then oldest known copy of the Septuagint.

The medieval universities of Western Christendom were well-integrated across all of Western Europe, encouraged freedom of enquiry and produced a great variety of fine scholars and natural philosophers, including Thomas Aquinas of the University of Naples, Robert Grosseteste of the University of Oxford, an early expositor of a systematic method of scientific experimentation ; and Saint Albert the Great, a pioneer of biological field research The University of Bologne is considered the oldest continually operating university.

* 1852 – The Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia, one of the largest and oldest museums in the world, opens to the public.

The oldest icon of Christ Pantocrator, Encaustic painting | encaustic on panel, c. 6th century ( Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai ).

While visiting Davis ' oldest sister near Saint Francisville, Louisiana, both newlyweds contracted malaria.

* Monastery of Saint Anthony, one of the oldest Christian monasteries in the world.

Saint Catherine's Monastery, Mount Sinai | St. Catherine's Monastery is the oldest working Christian monastery in the world and the most popular tourist attraction on the peninsula

* 301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, is founded by Saint Marinus.

The oldest practical rebreather relates to the 1849 patent from the Frenchman Pierre Aimable De Saint Simon Sicard.

The hymn " Svatý Václave " ( Saint Wenceslas ) or " Saint Wenceslas Chorale " is one of the oldest known Czech songs in history.

The oldest recorded sparkling wine is Blanquette de Limoux, which was apparently invented by Benedictine Monks in the Abbey of Saint Hilaire, near Carcassonne in 1531.

The largest and oldest church of the city is the St. Walburgis ( Saint Walpurga ) church, which originally dates from the eleventh century.

Nemanja's son Rastko ( Saint Sava ), gained autocephaly for the Serbian Church in 1217 and authored the oldest known constitution, and in the same year Stefan II was crowned King, establishing the Serbian Kingdom.

According to the UNESCO report ( 60100 ha / Ref: 954 ) and website hereunder, this monastery has been called the oldest working Christian monastery in the world – although the Monastery of Saint Anthony, situated across the Red Sea in the desert south of Cairo, also lays claim to that title.

The Bank of Saint George is among the oldest in the world, as it was founded in 1407, playing an important role in the city ’ s prosperity from the middle of the 15th century.

* Saint Vincent's College, the oldest higher education institution in Zamboanga del Norte, Philippines

Since 1917 Kaller served as priest at Berlin's second oldest Catholic Church, Saint Michael's.

Saint Barbara Church, the oldest church in Chorzów ( from year 1859 )

The oldest mention of Saint Nicolai church dates to 1276.

St George the Martyr is the oldest church in Greater London dedicated to England's Patron Saint, the redundant St Thomas Church is now the Old Operating Theatre Museum and Herb Garret.