Columbia Encyclopedia

Search results

500 results found

Moravian Church

(Encyclopedia)Moravian Church, Renewed Church of the Brethren, or Unitas Fratrum yo͞onēˈtäs fräˈtro͝om [key], an evangelical Christian communion whose adherents are sometimes called United Brethren or Herrn...

New Church

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

Nestorian Church

(Encyclopedia)Nestorian Church, officially the Assyrian Church of the East, Christian community of Iraq, Iran, and SW India. It represents the ancient church of Persia and is sometimes also called the East Syrian C...

Low Church

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

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...

Broad Church

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

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. ...

Russian Church

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

Salem Church

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

Browse by Subject