(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…
(Encyclopedia) Jacobite ChurchJacobite Churchjăkˈəbītˌ [key], officially Syrian Orthodox Church, Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as…
(Encyclopedia) Moravian Church,&sp;Renewed Church of the Brethren, or Unitas FratrumUnitas Fratrumy&oomacr;nēˈtäs fräˈtr&oobreve;m [key], an evangelical Christian communion whose…
(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…
(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…
