According to a newspaper report of the 1961 statistics of the Church of England, the `` total of confirmed members is 9,748,000, but only 2,887,671 are registered on the parochial church rolls '', and `` over 27 million people in England are baptized into the Church of England, but roughly only a tenth of them continue ''.

According to the orthodox Thomism of the Roman Catholic Church, Aristotle rightly regarded reason as a facility of the individual soul.

According to these statements, claims that one or more denominations might be the " true Church " are nothing more than propaganda which has evolved over centuries to support authoritarian claims --- based on tradition or based on scripture --- of merely human institutions.

According to the 1991 census 28 % of houses in the borough were considered ' unfit ', chiefly those in Accrington and Church.

According to the writer Timothy Dufort, by 1969, all Church of England bishops had acquired Old Catholic lines of apostolic succession recognised by the Holy See.

According to the Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church, a bishop's responsibilities are

According to the History of the Cyprus Church, in 478 Barnabas appeared in a dream to the Archbishop of Constantia ( Salamis, Cyprus ) Anthemios and revealed to him the place of his sepulchre beneath a carob-tree.

According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church the body after resurrection is changed into a spiritual, imperishable body:

According to Christian Tradition and Canon Law, the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria only ordains men to the priesthood and episcopate, and if they wish to be married, they must be married before they are ordained.

According to Harper's New Monthly Magazine: As such, according to one viewpoint, for those who " belong to the Church ," the term Methodist Catholic, or Presbyterian Catholic, or Baptist Catholic, is as proper as the term Roman Catholic.

According to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, such spiritual practices are, in and of themselves, inspired by promptings from the light of Christ or the Holy Spirit that are communications with an individual's divine essence or spirit that is linked directly to God through pre-existence as his offspring.

According to Irenaeus, a 2nd century Church Father, the church at Rome was founded directly by the apostles Peter and Paul.

According to the epic of El Cid, the Castilian nobility led by El Cid and a dozen " oath-helpers " forced Alfonso to swear publicly in front of Santa Gadea ( Saint Agatha ) Church in Burgos on holy relics multiple times that he did not participate in the plot to kill his brother.

According to the Church Fathers, the Bishops of Asia Minor requested John, in his old age, to write a gospel in response to Cerinthus, the Ebionites and other Hebrew groups which they deemed heretical.

According to Church tradition, it was under Nero's persecution that Peter and Paul were each martyred in Rome.

According to the legend, King Abenner or Avenier in India persecuted the Christian Church in his realm, founded by the Apostle Thomas.

* According to the first theory the document was an effort to transform the existing missionary bishopric into a regular organization of the Catholic Church, that would cover all of Mieszko's state.

According to the San Francisco Chronicle, by 1989 Unification Church members preferred to be called " Unificationists " rather than " Moonies.

According to the 1999 edition of Religion and Politics In America Unification Church followers were known " universally " by the term.

According to Bruce McConkie, a general authority of the LDS Church, " Mormonism is indistinguishable from Christianity.

According to LDS Church general authority Monte J. Brough, " Mormons who baptized 380, 000 Holocaust victims posthumously were motivated by love and compassion and did not understand their gesture might offend Jews ... they did not realize that what they intended as a ' Christian act of service ' was ' misguided and insensitive .'".

According to the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church, the liturgical year begins at 4: 00 pm on the Saturday preceding the fourth Sunday prior to 25 December.

According to both rabbinic tradition and the tradition of the Orthodox Church, this is the same individual as the prophet.

According to Cornwell, " the text, together with the Anti-Modernist Oath, became the means by which the Holy See was to establish and sustain the new, unequal, and unprecedented power relationship that had arisen between the papacy and the Church.

According to Viking lore, Canute the Great used 1, 400 in Norway in 1028, and William the Conqueror used about 600 for the invasion of Britain in 1066 in the post Viking period.

According to Irish lore, the Mooney family comes from one of the largest and most noble Irish lines.

In his book " The Meaning of Trees: botany, history, healing, lore " Fred Hageneder writes on page 149, " According to Breton legend, the legendary wise man Merlin climbed the Pine of Barenton ( from bel nemeton, " Sacred Grove of Bel "), just as shamans climb the World Tree.

According to Celtic lore, Samhain is a time when the boundaries between the world of the living and the world of the dead become thinner, allowing spirits and other supernatural entities to pass between the worlds to socialize with humans.

According to official Residents lore, there was internal turmoil which resulted in a large, " embarrassing " food fight ; they decided to resolve this tension in 1974 by recording what would later become Not Available – representative of N. Senada's Theory of Obscurity taken to its logical conclusion.

According to Tom Jr .: This anecdote never made it into IBM lore, which is too bad, because it would have helped explain Father to the tens of thousands of people who had to follow his rules.

According to Armenian lore, there are women who, in consequence of deadly sins, are condemned to spend seven years in wolf form.

According to apocryphal lore, língchí began when the torturer, wielding an extremely sharp knife, began by putting out the eyes, rendering the condemned incapable of seeing the remainder of the torture and, presumably, adding considerably to the psychological terror of the procedure.

According to Factory lore, Warhol, whose films were often shut down by the police for obscenity, thought the script was so pornographic that it must have been a police trap.

According to popular film lore, Shearer was originally never in the running for the lead role in The Divorcee because it was believed that she didn't have enough sex appeal ; it was only after Shearer arranged a special photo session with studio portrait photographer George Hurrell and her husband saw the result, that he relented and gave her the role.

According to Finnish lore, the human body is most beautiful thirty minutes after a sauna.

" According to local lore, the first sustained flight did not occur in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, but just outside Tokio ( a small community in McLennan County ) by a man flying a gyrocopter.

According to Igbo lore, these lesser Alusi, as elements of Chukwu, have their own specific purpose.

According to local lore, the town was originally known as " Shakerag ," from the rag would-be passengers would wave to stop trains passing through.

According to local lore, he erected a sign over the entrance of the tavern depicting the rays of the sun at dawn and the words " The Rising Sun ".

According to town lore, Moore promised to name the town for his brother Charles if he helped.

According to lore, the overflow of water from the railway's water tank fertilized a patch of clover, and the stop was called " the clover patch.

According to town lore, the name Du Pre came from the postmaster of the nearby Mountain City, W. W. Haupt, who pleaded with railroad officials, “ Do, pray, give us a depot .”

According to historical lore, Bunton ’ s smooth-talking wife, Mary Howell Bunton, convinced their captors that they were American citizens legally entering Texas under the colonization law granted by Mexico to Stephen F. Austin.

According to one, the big Swedish and German boys of Hutto were playing their smaller foes in football, and the visiting coach exclaimed “ We can ’ t beat those boys, they ’ re big as hippos !” Another story, also based on gridiron lore, is that the Hutto football team in the early twenties had no real jerseys and used feed sacks as their uniforms.

According to lore, it was after his parents, who had been childless for many years, prayed at the Vadakkunnathan temple, Thrissur that Sankara was born under the star Thiruvathiralike Sambandar with whom he has a lot of commonalities and whom he praises in his hymns.

According to lore, among the treasures of the Greek church entrusted to Lawrence for safe-keeping was the Holy Chalice, the cup from which Jesus and the Apostles drank at the Last Supper.

According to local lore, it was cast in Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ) sometime between the 1st and 9th century.

According to family lore, the Addington family of Virginia is descended from former British prime minister Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth.