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Protestant Episcopal Church

(Encyclopedia)Protestant Episcopal Church: see Episcopal Church. ...

Orthodox Eastern Church

(Encyclopedia)Orthodox Eastern Church, community of Christian churches whose chief strength is in the Middle East and E Europe. Their members number some 300 million worldwide. The Orthodox agree doctrinally in acc...

Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers

(Encyclopedia)Rochdale Society of Equitable Pioneers, one of the first consumers' cooperatives, founded in 1844 in Rochdale, England, by 28 Lancashire weavers. Influenced by the theories of Robert Owen, they opened...

Bray, Thomas

(Encyclopedia)Bray, Thomas, 1656–1730, English clergyman and philanthropist. In 1696 he was selected by the bishop of London as his commissary to establish the Anglican church in Maryland. Bray recruited missiona...

Gore, Charles

(Encyclopedia)Gore, Charles, 1853–1932, English prelate and theologian. As the first principal (1884–93) of Pusey House, a theological center at Oxford, he was a leading figure in the High Church movement (see ...

Doctors of the Church

(Encyclopedia)Doctors of the Church: see Fathers of the Church. ...

Church of Christ, Scientist

(Encyclopedia)Church of Christ, Scientist: see Christian Science. ...

Church of the Brethren

(Encyclopedia)Church of the Brethren: see Brethren. ...

Church of the Nazarene

(Encyclopedia)Church of the Nazarene năzˌərēnˈ [key], U.S. Protestant denomination established in 1908 through the union of the Church of the Nazarene, based in California; the Association of Pentecostal Churc...

Evangelical and Reformed Church

(Encyclopedia)Evangelical and Reformed Church, Protestant denomination formed by the merger (1934) of the Reformed Church in the United States and the Evangelical Synod of North America. Both of these bodies had or...