In general, friendly contact with a member followed by contact with a clergyman will account for a major share of recruitment by the churches, making it quite evident that the extension of economic integration through co-optation is the principal form of mission in the contemporary church ; ;

While it must be said that these same Protestants have built some new churches during this period, and that religious population shifts have emptied churches, a principal reason for this phenomenon of redundancy is that fewer Protestants are going to church.

The Anglican Communion is an international association of national and regional Anglican churches ( and a few other episcopal churches ) in full communion with the Church of England ( which is regarded as the mother church of the worldwide communion ) and specifically with its principal primate, the Archbishop of Canterbury.

Another was unveiled at St Mildred's Church, Bread St, London, in 1932 ; that church was destroyed in the London Blitz in 1940, but the principal elements of the monument were re-erected in St Mary-le-Bow at the west end of Watling Street, near Saint Paul's Cathedral, in 1968.

Fires started by the Nika rioters consumed Constantine's basilica of St Sophia, the city's principal church, which lay to the north of the Augustaeum.

The term cardinal at one time applied to any priest permanently assigned or incardinated to a church, or specifically to the senior priest of an important church, based on the Latin cardo ( hinge ), meaning " principal " or " chief ".

From 1544 to 1551, Palestrina was organist of the principal church ( St. Agapito ) of his native city, and in 1551 he became maestro di cappella at the Cappella Giulia, the papal choir at St Peter's.

On a commission from the Rucellai family he completed the principal facade of the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence which had been begun in the previous century.

For, since there are four zones of the world in which we live, and four principal winds, while the church is scattered throughout all the world, and the “ pillar and ground ” of the church is the gospel and the spirit of life ; it is fitting that she should have four pillars, breathing out immortality on every side, and vivifying men afresh.

In his letter to Rome, written at this time, he sent salutations from some of the principal members of the church to the Romans.

Nevertheless, Donizetti received some musical instruction from Simon Mayr, a German composer of internationally successful operas who had become maestro di cappella at Bergamo's principal church in 1802.

The principal words typically used to distinguish houses of worship in Western Christian architecture are basilica, cathedral and church.

The word temple, however, is used frequently in the tradition of Eastern Christianity and particularly the Eastern Orthodox Church, where the principal words used for houses of worship are temple and church.

The False Decretals were part of a series of falsifications of past legislation by a party in the Carolingian Empire whose principal aim was to free the church and the bishops from interference by the state and the metropolitan archbishops respectively.

The Church of the Dormition, the principal Greek Orthodox church in Nicaea, was one of the most architecturaly important Byzantine churches in Asia Minor.

Remains of the principal buildings erected by Herod and the medieval town are still visible today, including the city walls, the castle and a Crusader cathedral and church.

While there is no stipulation forbidding that the tabernacle remain on the principal altar of the church — even should the priest say Mass facing the people — the revised Roman Missal states that it is " more appropriate as a sign that on an altar on which Mass is celebrated there not be a tabernacle in which the Most Holy Eucharist is reserved ," and there that it is " preferable that the tabernacle be located ":

The group's principal aim was to embed Catholic doctrine in the legal structure of the Irish state, including recognition of the Catholic Church as the established church of Ireland, as it had been in Spain until 1931.

The principal parish church for Acomb is St Stephen's, a Grade II listed building built in 1831-1832 by G T Andrews on the site of the previous medieval church.

In Parikia's main square is the town's principal church, the Panagia Ekatontapiliani, literally meaning " church of the hundred doors ".

In 1823, Light had fondly written of the Sicilian city of Catania: " The two principal streets cross each other at right angles in the square in the direction of north and south and east and west.

His principal poetical works were: Dramatic Scenes and other Poems ( 1819 ), A Sicilian Story ( 1820 ), Marcian Colonna ( 1820 ), Mirandola, a tragedy performed at Covent Garden with Macready, Charles Kemble and Miss Foote in the leading parts ( 1821 ), The Flood of Thessaly ( 1823 ).

* In the film and book City of Ember, the principal city is either the last or one of several underground cities used to escape a devastating war.

The city consists of two principal parts: the downtown and the old Inner City ( 21. 5 ha ).

It is also the principal city of the Columbus, Indiana, metropolitan statistical area which encompasses all of Bartholomew County.

It is the principal city in Chicago Metropolitan Area situated in the Midwestern United States and the Great Lakes region.

Originally founded as a Viking settlement, it evolved into the Kingdom of Dublin and became the island's principal city following the Norman invasion.

Grafton Street is a principal shopping street in Dublin's city centre.

Francisco de Orellana, yet another lieutenant of Francisco Pizarro from the Spanish city of Trujillo, put down the native rebellion and in 1537 reestablished this city, which a century later would become one of Spain's principal ports in South America.

Gdańsk ( or ; ; Kashubian: Gduńsk, ) is a Polish city on the Baltic coast, the capital of the Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland's principal seaport and the center of the country's fourth-largest metropolitan area.

The town is often called " media city " since it is the principal centre for radio and television broadcasting in the Netherlands.

In Eritrea, Italian is a principal language in commerce and the capital city Asmara still has an Italian-language school.

It is the principal city of the Jackson Metropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Jackson County and has a population of 160, 248.

In 1504, the city fell to Babur from the north and made into his headquarters, which became one of the principal cities of his later Mughal Empire.

It was to be the first major city of the southern Baltic and, after 1282, a principal trading centre in the Hanseatic League.

It is a principal agricultural centre and a national transportation hub, linked by road and rail with the port of Volos, the city of Thessaloniki and Athens.

As the principal city of Maine, Le Mans was the stage for struggles in the eleventh century between the counts of Anjou and the dukes of Normandy.

Its principal expression was prishut, the practice of a married Talmud student going into self-imposed exile from his home and family to study in the kollel of a different city or town.

Syracuse, the principal city of Sicily, was not much smaller than Athens, and conquering all of Sicily would have brought Athens an immense amount of resources.

Until the late eighteenth century, the principal towns were on the east coast — Al Huwayla, Fuwayrit, and Al Bida — and the modern city of Doha developed around the largest of these, Al Bida.

An Eastern body of Christian Sabbath-keepers mentioned from the 8th century to the 12th is called Athenians (" touch-not ") because they abstained from uncleanness and intoxicating drinks, called Athinginians in Neander: " This sect, which had its principal seat in the city of Armorion, in upper Phrygia, where many Jews resided, sprung out of a mixture of Judaism and Christianity.

First, it cut off the principal city from communicating with other cities where they might expect aid.

The reports from these cities and the streaming hordes of refugees not only reduced the morale of the inhabitants and garrison of the principal city, it also strained their resources.

Seoul is the principal tourist destination for visitors ; popular tourist destinations outside of Seoul include Seorak-san national park, the historic city of Gyeongju and semi-tropical Jeju Island.