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Melchites
Melchites or Melkites , members of a Christian community in the Levant and the Americas, mainly Arabic-speaking and numbering about 250,000. They are in communion with the pope and have a Byzantine rite much like that of Constantinople but in the Arabic language. Their head, under the pope, is... Read more |
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Armenian Church
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 catholicos in 1999. His rule is shared by the patriarchs of Jerusalem and Constantinople and by the catholicos of... Read more |
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Concordat of 1801
Concordat of 1801 agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII that reestablished the Roman Catholic Church in France. Napoleon took the initiative in negotiating this agreement; he recognized that reconciliation with the church was politic. It would help consolidate his position, end the... Read more |
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diocese of Sherborne
Sherborne, diocese of. The see, carved out of Winchester in 705 by King Ine for the oversight of all west Wessex, was further split in 909 by Edward the Elder; Sherborne retained Dorset, Devon and Cornwall went to Crediton, Somerset to Wells, and Wiltshire and Berkshire to Ramsbury. In 1058 ... Read more |
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heaven
heaven blissful upper realm or state entered after death; in Western monotheistic religions it is the place where the just see God face to face (sometimes called the beatific vision). In Judaism, heaven is pictured as the abode of God to which he ultimately welcomes the righteous and faithful. Many... Read more |
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Frederick III (Holy Roman Empire)
Frederick III 1415-93, Holy Roman emperor (1452-93) and German king (1440-93). With his brother Albert VI he inherited the duchies of Styria, Carinthia, and Carniola. He became head of the house of Hapsburg at the death (1439) of his distant cousin Albert II, whom he was elected (1440) to succeed... Read more |
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archiepiscopal diocese of Tuam
Tuam, archiepiscopal diocese of. Though this Irish see had bishops in the early 12th cent., the Council of Kells-Mellifont (1152) established it as an archbishopric, carved out of Armagh province, with six dioceses in the far west of Ireland. As late as the 16th cent. it was still part of ecclesia... Read more |
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Min
Min . 1 Chief river of Fujian prov., SE China, c.350 mi (560 km) long, rising in Wuyi shan and flowing SE to the South China Sea near Fuzhou; it receives several tributaries near Nanping. Fuzhou, a transshipment point, has a deepwater anchorage for oceangoing vessels. 2 River, W Sichuan prov.,... Read more |
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Anhalt
Anhalt , former state, c.900 sq mi (2,330 sq km), central Germany, surrounded by the former Prussian provinces of Saxony and Brandenburg. Dessau, the capital, and Köthen were the chief cities. Nonmountainous except for the outliers of the lower Harz Mts. in the west, it was drained by the Elbe,... Read more |
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William OBrien
William O'Brien 1852-1928, Irish journalist and political leader. He became (1881) editor of a newspaper, United Ireland, which championed the Irish agrarian cause (see Irish Land Question ). Imprisoned in the same year, he wrote, at the behest of Charles Parnell , the famous No Rent... Read more |
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Ex-bishop Marino and Vicki Long reunite after sex scandal and plan new life...
...resigned from the Catholic Church when it came to light...recently decided to reunite and are planning...nation's first Black Catholic archbishop. According...old rocked the Catholic Church with her allegations...1987 she ... |
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POLKA KINGS REUNITE FOR CHURCH FESTIVAL.(Sun Prairie News)
...to liturgy music at St. Malachy Catholic Church in Horicon, where he had moved a...Saturday, The Greenspring Band will reunite for its first gig in more than three...000 in cash. Raffle tickets cost $2 apiece or $5 for three, and are... |
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Church ready for its second coming After fire, Wheaton parish hopes to...
...Staff Writer St. Michael Catholic Church is ready to rise from the...Michael served roughly 2,700 families then. Several...St. Daniel the Prophet Catholic Church, 101 W. Loop Road...average donation of about $2,200 for each ... |
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COLUMN: Pope Benedict XVI should bring church back into focus
...need for the Catholic church to again address...When American Catholics think of church...there is nearly 2,000 years...better unify the Catholics church. Much...called True Catholic group ... |
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gripping picture drives an effort to reunite a family.(Front)
...Sunday to try to reunite the girls with family...night sleeping in a church, huddled with Reponse...refuge at the local Catholic church in Kiwanja. When...girl who was only 2 months old when her...of a room on the Catholic ... |
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A soldier's act of defiance has lifelong consequences; Silver Spring man to...
...of the event, he will reunite with several of the Germans...children to Lutheran and Catholic churches to teach them about religion...supplies for the children. Churches started sending care...airlift delivered more than 2 million tons of ... |
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Thaw Seen in Vatican-China Relations; Catholic Journal Article Indicates...
Catholic Church officials are seeing...1951 of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association...province that must reunite with the mainland. An underground Catholic church, with its...parallel to the Catholic ... |
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First Women to Become Episcopal Priests Reunite; 20 Years Later, Female Roles...
...29, 1974, attended by 2,000 people, Piccard...priests in the Episcopal Church, the American branch...held in defiance of church authorities, was the...has affirmed the Roman Catholic Church's ban on ordaining women... |
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Grammar school classes reunite after 50 years
...morning, as they helped decorate the church hall at St. Jarlath's Catholic Church in upper Fruitvale for tonight...the usual grade range at most Catholic schools, and the equivalent of...Give 'em Hill, Tuesdays on Page 2. |
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Computers Reunite Holocaust Survivors
...issued after the war, Dec. 2, 2003, at his home in Seattle. Gordon, a Catholic from Poland, had been...one of them. Gordon, a Catholic from Poland, had been...neighborhood in Warsaw and the Catholic church where he attended services... |