Thus the only member churches of the present Anglican Communion existing by the mid-18th century were the Church of England, its closely linked sister church, the Church of Ireland ( which also separated from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII ) and the Scottish Episcopal Church which for parts of the 17th and 18th centuries was partially underground ( it was suspected of Jacobite sympathies ).

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.

St. John's Episcopal Church ( Hampton, Virginia ) | St. John's Church is the oldest English-speaking church in continuous existence in the United States and the only colonial structure in downtown Hampton.

The Cathedral of the Isles of the Scottish Episcopal Church, completed in 1851 and which seats only 100 people, is the smallest cathedral in Great Britain.

The Reformed Church in Hungary, its sister church in Romania, the Hungarian Reformed Church in America, the Polish Reformed Church, and the Reformed Episcopal Church are the only churches in the Reformed tradition to have retained the office of bishop.

Medina is in Ripley's Believe it or Not for St. John's Episcopal Church which is the " Church in the Middle of the Road " and the Culvert, which is the only place in which a road passes under the Erie Canal.

The only building remaining from the Pittman school is the Home Economics building, which the Methodist Episcopal Church gave to the town after its incorporation for use as its city hall.

There is only one church in Alta, Wyoming: St. Francis of the Tetons Episcopal Church.

Thus, within the Latin-Rite Catholic Church, the term subdeacon now applies only to those ordained to that rank within one of these groups and to acolytes in countries where the Episcopal Conference has chosen to give them the name of subdeacon.

" In the former group Stanley would have placed all questions connected with Episcopal or Presbyterian orders, or that deal only with the outward forms or ceremonies of religion, or with the authorship or age of the books of the Old Testament.

In Adrianople itself were only a very few United Bulgarians, with an Episcopal church of St. Elias, and the churches of St. Demetrius and Sts.

Ecclesiastical courts in the American Episcopal Church have jurisdiction only over disciplinary cases involving clergy and are divided into two separate systems: one for trials of bishops ( at the level of the national Episcopal Church ) and the other for trials of priests and deacons ( at the level of the diocese for original jurisdiction and at the provincial level for appeals ).

The Constitution of the national Episcopal Church provides that this court must be composed only of bishops.

At early as 1872, there were only two churches in the town of Geddes: St. Patrick's Church ( Roman Catholic ) and The First Methodist Episcopal Church ( Methodist Episcopal ).

Out of 200, 000 African American members in 1860 there in 1866 remained only 49, 000, and most of them split off on friendly terms in 1870 to form the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, now the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church, taking with them $ 1. 5 million in buildings and properties.

Of architectural interest in Greenpoint are: The Episcopal Church of the Ascension ( Ascension Greenpoint ) ( 1853 ) the oldest church in Greenpoint on Kent Street, The Astral Apartments ( 1885 ) ( NRHP ) on Franklin Street, the Saint Anthony of Padua Roman Catholic Church ( 1875 ) on Manhattan Avenue, the Eberhard-Faber Pencil Factory on Greenpoint Ave at Franklin St., the Polish Orthodox Cathedral of the Transfiguration of Our Lord ( 1921 ) ( NRHP ) on North 12th Street, the Oliver Hazard Perry School () ( 1867 ) on Norman Avenue ( the oldest continuously operating public school building in New York City ); the Capital One ( formerly Green Point ) Savings Bank ( 1908 ), the Saint Stanislaus Kostka Roman Catholic Church ( 1896 )() on Humboldt Street, which serves as a Catholic shrine for the Polish community, and the synagogue building of Congregation Ahavas Israel ( 1903 ) on Noble Street ( the sanctuary, with stained glass windows and a torah shrine with turn-of the century wood carvings, is currently open only during services on Saturday mornings ).

In 1937, the Federal Council of Churches ( now known as the National Council of Churches ) recommended that the entire part of the Christian calendar between Pentecost and Advent be named Kingdomtide ; however, two years later the Methodist Episcopal Church adopted the term only for the second half of this time period.

A number of Anglican provinces also ordain women as bishops, though, as of 2010, only four of the provinces have done so: the Episcopal Church in the United States and the Anglican churches of Australia, Canada and New Zealand.

The official policy of the Episcopal Church is to only invite baptized persons to receive communion.

In 1782, William White, the father of the Episcopal Church, wrote in his pamphlet The Case of the Episcopal Churches in the United States Considered, " it would seem, that their future continuance can be provided for only by voluntary associations for union and good government ".

Three churches — Christian, Episcopal, and Presbyterian — were organized in the community, but it never grew significantly ; only one store and a few houses were ever built in the community.

Francia banned religious orders, closed the country's only seminary, " secularized " monks and priests by forcing them to swear loyalty to the state, abolished the fuero eclesiástico ( the privilege of clerical immunity from civil courts ), confiscated church property, and subordinated church finances to state control.

It remains the only higher education institution in the county, and encompasses a full university and theological seminary.

In 1843, he was called to become Professor of Church History and Biblical Literature in the German Reformed Theological Seminary of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, then the only seminary of that church in America.

# The seminary which incorporated not only secular studies but academic scholarship.

The UPCI operates the only fully accredited Oneness Pentecostal seminary in the world:

As of 2012, ALEPH is the only seminary which offers training toward ordination as a rabbinic pastor.

The seminary officially reopened its doors on October 2, 1865, only to be burned October 15, 1869.

In 1840, the word “ seminary ” meant only that it was an academy or a high school, not a religious institution.

As of March 2009, Cathedral Preparatory Seminary is the only full time high school seminary in the nation.

Francia closed the country's only seminary in 1822, mainly due to the bishop's mental illness.

It was founded in 1891 by the Evangelical Covenant Church and shares its campus with the denomination's only seminary.

Born in Glasgow, Scotland, young Rainy was intended for his father's profession, but he was caught by the evangelical fervour of the Disruption movement, and after studying for the Free Church he became a minister, first in Aberdeenshire and then in Edinburgh, till in 1862 he was elected professor of Church history in the theological seminary, New College, a post he only resigned in 1900.

The seminary is not only run theology program but also run secular degree programs to fulfill young Karen intellectual and vocational needs.

The preface to the first edition expresses the intention with this English version to provide an edition for use by those who are unfamiliar with the Lutheran Confessions, being designed for use not only in seminary and college classrooms, but also in homes and churches.

1960 marked the establishment of the Earlham School of Religion as the only Friends seminary in the world.

While the school only briefly functioned as a seminary, it served for many years as a boarding school, while also admitting day students.

As Quesada belonged to an ancient family connected with the Dukes of Fernan Nuñez, he was made a cornet when only six years old, was educated at the seminary for nobles and in 1833 was promoted to Lieutenant in the 1st Foot Guards.

During the time up to its reopening only a seminary and midwifery college survived.

It is now the only major seminary in Ireland.

A further 5 Irish seminarians currently study in St. Malachy's Seminary in Belfast ( the only other Catholic seminary in Ireland ) and maintain close links with their counterparts in Maynooth.

The Jerusalem campus is the only seminary in Israel for training Reform Jewish clergy.

The Church could retain only the buildings it used for its operations ( churches, monasteries, seminary buildings ); governments could keep only government offices, jails, and school buildings.

Daniels and several other seminary students left for Alabama on Thursday, and had intended to only stay the weekend, but Daniels and friend Judith Upham missed the bus home.

Believing that Jesuits were involved only in educational work he chose to enter the seminary for the diocese of Ferns ( 1861 ) for which he was ordained priest on 28 October 1864, in Carlow.