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Philippine Independent Church

(Encyclopedia)Philippine Independent Church, religious body that separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1902 and rejected the spiritual authority of the pope. It is known popularly as the Aglipayan Church, aft...

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...

Low Church

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

High Church

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

Anglican Church

(Encyclopedia)Anglican Church: see England, Church of; Anglican Communion. ...

Greek Church

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

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...

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