But Theodore Parker, commencing his mission to the world-at-large, disguised as the minister of a `` twenty-eighth Congregational Church '' which bore no resemblance to the Congregational polities descended from the founders ( among which were still the Unitarian churches ), made explicit from the beginning that the conflict between him and the Hunkerish society was not something which could be evaporated into a genteel difference about clerical decorum.

And he took repeated care to let his colleagues know that he intended them: `` Even the Unitarian churches have caught the malaria, and are worse than those who deceived them '' -- which implied that they were very bad indeed.

By the mid-nineteenth century there were Wesleyan, Primitive Methodist, United Free Methodist, Congregationalist, Baptist, Swedenborgian, Unitarian, Roman Catholic and Catholic Apostolic churches in the town.

The first native seeds were planted with the publication of The Canadian Unitarian in Ottawa from 1940 to 1946, a small newsletter distributed with the newsletters of Canadian churches.

In 1946 there were six Icelandic Unitarian churches with 272 members, and five English-speaking churches with 1, 049 members.

In 1961 there were three Universalist churches with 68 members, and three Icelandic and eleven English-speaking Unitarian churches with 3, 476 members, and in addition 22 Unitarian fellowships with 773 members.

Four presidents are affiliated with Unitarian churches, and the fifth ( Jefferson ) was an exponent of ideas now commonly associated with Unitarianism.

By 1800, most Congregationalist churches in Boston had Unitarian preachers teaching the strict unity of God, the subordinate nature of Christ, and salvation by character.

Adams himself preferred Unitarian preachers, but he was opposed to Joseph Priestley's sympathies with the French Revolution, and would attend other churches if the only nearby Congregational / Unitarian one was composed of followers of Priestley.

In the United States, the Unitarian movement began primarily in the Congregational parish churches of New England, which were part of the state church of Massachusetts.

In the late 18th century, conflict grew within some of these churches between Unitarian and Trinitarian factions.

After the schism, some of those churches remained within the Congregational fold, while others voted to become Unitarian.

In the aftermath of their various historical circumstances, some of these churches became member congregations of the Congregational organization ( later the United Church of Christ ), others became Unitarian and eventually became part of the UUA.

Many Unitarian Universalist churches celebrate observances associated with other religious traditions, including Buddhist-style meditation groups, Jewish Seder, Yom Kipur and Passover dinners, iftaar meals ( marking the breaking of Ramadan fast for Muslims ), and Christmas Eve / Winter Solstice services.

Congregations call themselves " churches ," " societies ," " fellowships ," " congregations ," or eschew the use of any particular descriptor ( e. g. " Sierra Foothills Unitarian Universalists ").

* Unitarian, Universalist and Unitarian Universalist churches worldwide are represented in the International Council of Unitarians and Universalists ( ICUU ).

In the past, the vast majority of members of Unitarian churches were Unitarians also in belief.

For example, in the 1890s the American Unitarian Association began to allow non-Christian and non-theistic churches and individuals to be part of their fellowship.

The Unitarian clergy were an exclusive club of cultivated gentlemen -- as the term was then understood in the Back Bay -- and Parker was definitely not a gentleman, either in theology or in manners.

The fact is incontestable: that liberal world of Unitarian Boston was narrow-minded, intellectually sterile, smug, afraid of the logical consequences of its own mild ventures into iconoclasm, and quite prepared to resort to hysterical repressions when its brittle foundations were threatened.

This is only 35 years before John Thomas ' 1849 lecture tour in Britain which attracted significant support from an existing non-Trinitarian Adventist base, particularly, initially, in Scotland where Arian Socinian and unitarian ( with a small ' u ' as distinct from the Unitarian Church of Theophilus Lindsey ) views were prevalent.

In 1953 there were six Unitarian ministers serving congregations in Canada.

Up until July 2002, almost all member congregations of the CUC were also members of the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ).

Abbot's publications, though always of the most thorough and scholarly character, were to a large extent dispersed in the pages of reviews, dictionaries, concordances, texts edited by others, Unitarian controversial treatises, etc.

The Unitarian Universalists of Russia were a founding member of the ICUU.

Some were Unitarian or unaffiliated with a specific religious body.

He never joined a Unitarian congregation: there were none near his home in Virginia during his lifetime.

Until 2002, almost all member congregations of the Canadian Unitarian Council ( CUC ) were also members of the UUA and most services to CUC member congregations were provided by the UUA.

There were several different forms of Christology in the beginnings of the Unitarian movement ; ultimately, the variety that became prevalent was that Jesus was a man, but one with a unique relationship to God.

As a result, people who held no Unitarian belief began to be called " Unitarians " because they were members of churches that belonged to the American Unitarian Association.

The Church is similar in some respects to the Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ), although the two were never affiliated.

On November 16, 1947, the Unitarian Church of Charlotte was formally established with 82 members.

The Unitarian Universalist Association ( UUA ) was formed in 1961, a consolidation of the American Unitarian Association, established in 1825, and the Universalist Church of America, established in 1866.

In England the first Unitarian Church was established in 1774 on Essex Street, London, where today's British Unitarian headquarters are still located.

The modern Unitarian Church in Hungary ( 25, 000 members ) and the Transylvanian Unitarian Church ( 75, 000 members ) are affiliated with the ICUU and claim continuity with the historical Unitarian Christian tradition established by Ferenc Dávid in 1565 in Transylvania under John II Sigismund Zápolya.

The Unitarian Church on Forester Drive was established in 1870 and is part of the East Cheshire Union of Unitarian and Free Christian Churches.

However, there was a setback in 1837 when “ the Presbyterian / Unitarian members were forced to withdraw from the General Body of Protestant Ministers which, for over a century, had represented the joint interests of the old established nonconformist groups in and around London ”.

In another strain of change, the first church in the United States with an openly Unitarian theology, the belief in the single personality of God, was established in Boston, Massachusetts in 1785 ( in a former Anglican parish.

* Unitarian Universalism-a theologically liberal religious movement founded in 1961 from the union of the well established Unitarian and Universalist churches.

The Second Great Awakening, despite its scope and power, was opposed by the more established church, especially Episcopalians and " Old Calvinists ", but also the growing Unitarian movement.

The established churches ( of England and Scotland ) and the English universities remained insistent that species were divinely created and man was distinct from the " lower orders ", but the Unitarian church rejected this teaching and even proclaimed that the human mind was subject to physical law.

Charles Dall ( a Unitarian minister of Boston ) arrived in Calcutta to start his mission and immediately established contact with Debendranath and other Brahmos.

Newman's views matured rapidly, and in 1840 he became Professor of Latin in Manchester New College, the celebrated Unitarian seminary long established at York, and the parent of Manchester College, Oxford.

From 1842 to 1855 he was pastor of the South Congregational Church of Boston, and in 1855-1860 as preacher to the university and Plummer professor of Christian Morals at Harvard ; he then left the Unitarian Church, with which his father had been connected as a clergyman at Hadley, resigned his professorship and became pastor of the newly established Emmanuel Church of Boston.

The Unitarian Gimnazium ( secondary school ) was established in the 18th century.

Charles Hope Kerr ( 1860 – 1944 ), a son of abolitionists, was a vegetarian and Unitarian in 1886 when he established Charles H Kerr Company Publishers in Chicago right before the Haymarket Riot.

Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company was established in Chicago, Illinois in 1886 by Charles Hope Kerr, originally to promote his Unitarian and vegetarian views.