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Reformed Episcopal Church

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

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...

Old Church Slavonic

(Encyclopedia)Old Church Slavonic: see Church Slavonic. ...

Catholic Apostolic Church

(Encyclopedia)Catholic Apostolic Church, religious community originating in England c.1831 and extending later to Germany and the United States (1848). It was founded under the influence of Edward Irving; its membe...

Calvinistic Methodist Church

(Encyclopedia)Calvinistic Methodist Church, Protestant Christian denomination, closely allied to Presbyterianism. It originated in Wales (1735–36) with the evangelistic preaching of Howell Harris, Daniel Rowlands...

Advent Christian Church

(Encyclopedia)Advent Christian Church: see Adventists. ...

United Zion Church

(Encyclopedia)United Zion Church: see River Brethren. ...

Honorius III

(Encyclopedia)Honorius III, d. 1227, pope (1216–27), a Roman named Cencio Savelli; successor of Innocent III. He was created cardinal in 1197 and was an able administrator of the papal treasury. He authored the o...

Joad, Cyril Edwin Mitchinson

(Encyclopedia)Joad, Cyril Edwin Mitchinson, 1891–1953, English philosopher. He became head of the department of philosophy at Birbeck College, Univ. of London, in 1930. As a rationalist, he was a successful lectu...