Word Finder - churches

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A Christian house of worship; a building where Christian religious services take place.

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There is a lovely little church in the valley.

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Christians collectively seen as a single spiritual community; Christianity.

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These worshippers make up the Church of Christ.

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A local group of people who follow the same Christian religious beliefs, local or general.

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A particular denomination of Christianity.

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The Church of England separated from the Roman Catholic Church in 1534.

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(as bare noun) Christian worship held at a church; service.

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Organized religion in general or a specific religion considered as a political institution.

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Many constitutions enshrine the separation of church and state.

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Any religious group.

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She goes to a Wiccan church down the road.

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Assembly.

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To conduct a religious service for (a woman after childbirth, or a newly married couple).

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To educate someone religiously, as in in a church.

There are several churches of minor importance in the town.

The old town contains one or two interesting churches, and commands a fine view.

There were bazaars, shops, warehouses, market stalls, granaries--for the most part still stocked with goods-- and there were factories and workshops, palaces and wealthy houses filled with luxuries, hospitals, prisons, government offices, churches, and cathedrals.

Wesley and his helpers, finding the Anglican churches closed against them, took to preaching in the open air; and this method is still followed, more or less, in the aggressive evangelistic work of all the Methodist Churches.

So they said, We must go to a new country far away and build schools and houses and churches and make new cities.

Two medieval castles rise above the town, and there are some churches of interest.

It is now worn in a considerable number of churches not only by the clergy but by acolytes and servers at the Communion.

How many churches are there in Moscow? he asked.

The WCTU and Anti-Saloon League were active and the churches sure didn't like the kind of business going on in Ouray.

He had climbed the high mountains in Switzerland and visited beautiful churches in Italy and France, and he saw a great many ancient castles.

It was decided to send a deputation of bishops with a letter of greeting to the national council of the Russian Church about to be assembled (60) and certain conditions were laid down for intercommunion with certain of the Churches of the Orthodox Eastern Communion (62) and the "ancient separated Churches of the East" (63-65).

Here and there he could see churches that had not been burned.

The churches are numerous and some are particularly handsome; such as the First church, which overlooks the harbour, and is so named from its standing on the site of the church of the original settlers; St Paul's, Knox church and the Roman Catholic cathedral of St Joseph.

The other public buildings include two churches, a town hall and a hospital.

So far as the organization of the Anglican Church is concerned, the most important outcome of the conference was the reconstruction of the Central Consultative Body on representative lines (54-56); this body to consist of the archbishop of Canterbury and seventeen bishops appointed by the various Churches of the Anglican Communion throughout the world.

We look in vain, therefore, for much more than the germs and principles of Presbyterianism in the churches of the first Reformers.

Churches which are organized on Presbyterian principles and hold doctrines in harmony with the reformed confessions are eligible for admission to the alliance.

It seemed as if all France had been waiting for this event as a signal, for organized churches began to spring up every where immediately afterwards.

But it was no more a chantry than the other colleges, all of which, like the monasteries and collegiate churches, were to pray for their founders' and other specified souls.

The pope or his legate, however, took no steps to remove abuses or otherwise reform the Scandinavian churches.

In English churches these stairs generally run up in a small turret in the wall at the west end of the chancel; often this also leads out on to the roof.

Among the principal buildings are the First National bank, the immense Union station and the Saint Vincent hospital; besides several fine office and school buildings (including the beautiful manual training high school) and churches.

New members are either catechumens or members transferred from other churches.

The general assembly reviews all the work of the Church; settles controversies; makes administrative laws; directs and stimulates missionary and other spiritual work; appoints professors of theology; admits to the ministry applicants from other churches; hears and decides complaints, references and appeals which have come up through the inferior courts; and takes cognizance of all matters connected with the Church's interests or with the general welfare of the people.

Probably the recognition and appointment of elders was simply the transfer from the synagogue to the Church of a usage which was regarded as essential among Jews; and the Gentile churches naturally followed the example of the Jewish Christians.

Proceedings of Seventh General Council of the Alliance of Reformed Churches holding the Presbyterian System (Washington, 1899).

It is consistent with this view to argue the absolute parity of ministers and elders, conceding to all presbyters" equal right to teach, to rule, to administer the sacraments, to take part in the ordination of ministers, and to preside in church courts."The practice of the Presbyterian churches of the present day is in accord with the first-named theory.

Another subject upon which there is a difference of opinion in the Presbyterian churches is the question of Church Establishments.

When the conclusions thus reached by many independent investigators were at length reduced to a system by Calvin, in his famous Institutio, it became the definite ideal of church government for all the Reformed, in contradistinction to the Lutheran, churches.

On the whole, the preponderating preference has always been in favour of so-called extemporaneous, or free prayer; and the Westminster Directory of Public Worship has to a large extent stereotyped the form and order of the service in most Presbyterian churches.

The psalms rendered into metre were formerly the only vehicle of the Church's public praise, but hymns are now also used in most Presbyterian churches.'

The administration of private communion to the sick and dying is extremely rare in Presbyterian churches, but there is less objection to it than formerly, and in some churches it is even encouraged.

On the roll of the general council held at Washington in 1899 there were sixty-four churches.

It is pathetic and yet inspiring to study the development of Presbyterianism in France; pathetic because it was in a time of fierce persecution that the French Protestants organized themselves into churches, and inspiring, because it showed the power which scriptural organization gave them to withstand incessant, unrelenting hostility.

A few churches had been organized earlier, at Meaux in 1546 and at Nimes in 1547, but their members had been dispersed by persecution.

Thirtysix more were completely organized by 1560.1 According to Beza there were about this time 2150 organized churches.

It was the first general synod of the French Protestant Church, and consisted of representatives from, some say sixty-six, others, twelve churches.

The book of order, Discipline ecclesiastique des eglises reformees de France, regulated the organization and procedure of the churches.

Its constitution has spread to Holland, Scotland (Ireland, England), and to the great American (and Colonial) churches.

In 1801 and 1802 Napoleon took into his own hands the independence of both Catholic and Protestant Churches, the national synod was abolished, and all active religious propaganda was rigorously forbidden.

In 1858 there were 617 pastors and the Union des eglises evangeliques numbered 27 churches.

The Reformed churches had established themselves in independence of the state when that state was Catholic; when the government became Protestant the Church had protection and at the same time became dependent.

The Presbyterian Church in Ireland is the most conservative of the great Presbyterian churches in the United Kingdom.

The Irish Presbyterian Church has set an example to all her sister churches by her forwardness to care for the poor.

Huguenot churches were formed on Staten Island, New York, in 1665; in New York City in 1683; at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1686; at Boston, Massachusetts, in 1687; at New Rochelle, New York, in 1688; and at other places.

The Charleston church alone of these early churches maintains its independence of any American denomination.

Nine of these Puritan Presbyterian churches were established on Long Island between 1640 and 1670 - one at Southampton and one at Southold (originally of the Congregational type) in 1640, one at Hempstead about 1644, one at Jamaica in 1662, and churches at Newtown and Setauket in the next half century; and three Puritan Presbyterian churches were established in Westchester county, New York, between 1677 and 1685.

The synod increased the number of its churches by a large accession from New York and from New Jersey, where there had been large Presbyterian settlements.

From New England, as has been seen, Puritan settlers established Presbyterian churches (or churches which immediately became Presbyterian) in Long Island, on New Jersey, and in South Carolina; but the Puritans who remained in New England usually established Congregational churches.

In 1782 the presbyteries of the Associate and Reformed churches united, forming the Associate and Reformed Synod of North America; but as there were a few dissenters in both bodies the older Associate and Reformed Presbyteries remained as separate units - the Associate Presbytery continued to exist under the same name until 1801, when it became the Associate Synod of North America; in 1818 it ceased to be subordinate to the Scotch General Synod.