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Armenian Church

(Encyclopedia)Armenian Church, autonomous Christian church, sometimes also called the Gregorian Church. Its head, a primate of honor only, is the catholicos of Yejmiadzin, Armenia; Karekin II became catholicos in 1...

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...

Jacobite Church

(Encyclopedia)Jacobite Church jăkˈəbītˌ [key], officially Syrian Orthodox Church, Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as its spiritual head, regarde...

Low Church

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

Russian Church

(Encyclopedia)Russian Church: see Orthodox Eastern Church. ...

Greek Church

(Encyclopedia)Greek Church: see Orthodox Eastern Church. ...

High Church

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

Eastern Church

(Encyclopedia)Eastern Church: see Orthodox Eastern Church. ...

Broad Church

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

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