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Assyrian Church

(Encyclopedia)Assyrian Church: see Nestorian Church. ...

New Church

(Encyclopedia)New Church: see New Jerusalem, Church of the. ...

Low Church

(Encyclopedia)Low Church: see England, Church of. ...

Celtic Church

(Encyclopedia)Celtic Church, name given to the Christian Church of the British Isles before the mission (597) of St. Augustine of Canterbury from Rome. Founded in the 2d or 3d cent. by missionaries from Rome or Gau...

Unification Church

(Encyclopedia)Unification Church, church founded (1954) in South Korea by Sun Myung Moon; officially the Holy Spirit Association for the Unification for World Christianity. Moon moved to the United States in 1971. ...

Broad Church

(Encyclopedia)Broad Church: see England, Church of. ...

Salem Church

(Encyclopedia)Salem Church: see Chancellorsville, battle of. ...

Bartholomew I

(Encyclopedia)Bartholomew I, 1940–, Orthodox patriarch of Constantinople, b. Imvros, Turkey, as Dimitrios Archondonis. He attended theological seminary in İstanbul and later studied in Rome, Switzerland, and Ger...

penance

(Encyclopedia)penance pĕnˈəns [key], sacrament of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Eastern churches. By it the penitent (the person receiving the sacrament) is absolved of his or her sins by a confessor (the pers...

canonization

(Encyclopedia)canonization kănˌənĭzāˈshən [key], in the Roman Catholic Church, process by which a person is classified as a saint. It is now performed at Rome alone, although in the Middle Ages and earlier b...