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Low Church

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

High Church

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

Anglican Church

(Encyclopedia)Anglican Church: see England, Church of; Anglican Communion. ...

Greek Church

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

Episcopal Church

(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 Revolution the personal l...

Jacobite Church

(Encyclopedia)Jacobite Church jăkˈəbītˌ [key], officially Syrian Orthodox Church, Christian church of Syria, Iraq, and India, recognizing the Syrian Orthodox patriarch of Antioch as its spiritual head, regarde...

Eastern Church

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

Confessing Church

(Encyclopedia)Confessing Church, Ger. Bekennende Kirche, German Protestant movement. It was founded in 1933 by Martin Niemoeller as the Pastors' Emergency League and was systematically opposed to the Nazi-sponsored...

Church, Benjamin

(Encyclopedia)Church, Benjamin, 1639–1718, New England colonial soldier in King Philip's War, b. Plymouth, Mass. He took a leading part in the Great Swamp Fight (Dec., 1675), W of Kingston, R.I., and finally hunt...

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