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Episcopal Church

(Encyclopedia)Episcopal Church, Anglican church of the United States. Its separate existence as an American ecclesiastical body with its own episcopate began in 1789. During the American Revolution the personal l...

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. ...

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...

Saint Mark's Church

(Encyclopedia)Saint Mark's Church, Venice, named after the tutelary saint of Venice. The original Romanesque basilical church, built in the 9th cent. as a shrine for the saint's bones, was destroyed by fire in 967....

Assyrian Church

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

Low Church

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

High Church

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

Broad Church

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

Evangelical Church

(Encyclopedia)Evangelical Church: see Evangelical United Brethren Church. ...

New Church

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