Search results for "Communion of Saints" - New World Encyclopedia
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- The term Oriental Orthodoxy refers to the communion of Eastern Christian ... The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria is considered the spiritual ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 01:18, 18 November 2022
- The Eucharist is a sacramental or memorial reenactment of the Last ... Christians generally recognize a special presence of Christ in this ...18 KB (2,814 words) - 04:40, 22 March 2024
- :the communion of saints, :the forgiveness of sins, :the resurrection ... The holy Catholick Church; The Communion of Saints; The Forgiveness of ...15 KB (2,172 words) - 15:52, 11 August 2023
- Augustine of Canterbury (birth unknown, died May 26, c. 604) was a ... He was the prior of the abbey of St Anthony in Rome when he was sent ...8 KB (1,136 words) - 19:07, 22 December 2022
- Pope Saint Stephen I served as bishop of Rome from May 12, 254 to ... The Christian church of Stephen's time was torn by a major schism ...11 KB (1,719 words) - 00:24, 12 April 2023
- invigorated the Roman church after a period of harsh persecution under Emperor ... penances for those who had lapsed. Outbreaks of serious and widespread violence ...10 KB (1,623 words) - 04:04, 26 November 2022
- of Lindisfarne, the Apostle of Northumbria (died 651), was an Irish ... Bede's meticulous and detailed account of Saint Aidan's ...14 KB (2,123 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- Saint Alphege is the Latinate name of Ælfheah (954–19 April, 1012 ... After Alphege's martyrdom at the hands of Danish invaders, his ...11 KB (1,692 words) - 19:03, 22 December 2022
- Saint Brendan of Clonfert, or Bréanainn of Clonfert (c. 484 – c ... who is chiefly renowned for his legendary quest to the Isle of the ...12 KB (1,898 words) - 22:58, 20 November 2023
- Pope Saint Telesphorus was bishop of Rome c. 128 to 138 C.E., during ... Irenaeus of Lyons recognized Telesphorus as a martyr, the first of ...4 KB (637 words) - 11:50, 13 February 2022
- Bartholomew was one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus. He is mentioned as ... -בר), meaning son of Tolomai (Ptolemy) or son of ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- Saint Alban was the first known Christian martyr of Britain. Shortly ... including that he changed the course of a river on his way to the site ...10 KB (1,607 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- Saint Margaret (c. 1046 – November 16, 1093), was the sister of ... piety, was essential to the revivification of Roman Catholicism in Scotland ...9 KB (1,439 words) - 13:25, 5 September 2022
- developed by the established Church of England. Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- third century C.E., based on the teachings of the antipope Novatian, who ... for the Roman church during the persecution of Emperor Decius c. 250 C.E. ...17 KB (2,510 words) - 22:16, 16 November 2022
- community. The word literally means out of communion, or no longer in ... Excommunication is the most grave of all ecclesiastical censures. ...24 KB (3,632 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- a Renaissance Roman Catholic monk and author of The Imitation of Christ, one ... Thomas was born at Kempen in the duchy of Cleves in Germany around ...10 KB (1,599 words) - 22:58, 30 April 2023
- the practice derives from the scriptures of the New Testament (John 13:1 ... The religious act of foot-washing is also practiced in Islam and Sikhism ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 15:11, 5 September 2022
- also general council) is a conference of the bishops of the whole Church ... inhabited," and was originally a figure of speech referring to the territory ...25 KB (3,755 words) - 21:55, 5 October 2020
- leader, he effectively promoted the primacy of the Roman church and cooperated ... role in condemning Pelagianism, his support of deposed patriarch of Constantinople ...15 KB (2,270 words) - 11:00, 13 February 2022
