Catholic Church (other)
The Catholic Church, sometimes called the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church body. Catholic Church may also refer to: * One of the 24 particular churches '' sui iuris'' that form the Catholic Church: ** The Latin Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church or, historically, as the Western Church ** The Eastern Catholic Churches, 23 Eastern churches in full communion with the Catholic Church * Independent Catholicism, churches that broke away from the Catholic Church ** Churches within Old Catholicism ** The Philippine Independent Church * Other churches expressing apostolic origins and traditions of catholicity, such as: ** The Eastern Orthodox Church ** The Oriental Orthodox Churches ** The Assyrian Church of the East ** The Ancient Church of the East ** Churches within Anglicanism * Certain denominations in Protestantism ** Churches within Lutheranism * State church of the Roman Empire See also * Four Marks of the Church i.e. "one, holy, catholic and ...
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Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a prominent role in the history and development of Western civilization. O'Collins, p. v (preface). The church consists of 24 ''sui iuris'' churches, including the Latin Church and 23 Eastern Catholic Churches, which comprise almost 3,500 dioceses and eparchies located around the world. The pope, who is the bishop of Rome, is the chief pastor of the church. The bishopric of Rome, known as the Holy See, is the central governing authority of the church. The administrative body of the Holy See, the Roman Curia, has its principal offices in Vatican City, a small enclave of the Italian city of Rome, of which the pope is head of state. The core beliefs of Catholicism are found in the Nicene Creed. The Catholic Church teaches that it ...
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Anglicanism
Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that has developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context of the Protestant Reformation in Europe. It is one of the largest branches of Christianity, with around 110 million adherents worldwide . Adherents of Anglicanism are called ''Anglicans''; they are also called ''Episcopalians'' in some countries. The majority of Anglicans are members of national or regional ecclesiastical provinces of the international Anglican Communion, which forms the third-largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church. These provinces are in full communion with the See of Canterbury and thus with the Archbishop of Canterbury, whom the communion refers to as its ''primus inter pares'' (Latin, 'first among equals'). The Archbishop calls the decennial Lambeth Conference, chairs the meeting of primates, and is th ...
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National Catholic Church (other)
National Catholic Church may refer to several independent Christian churches, often part of Independent Catholicism: * American National Catholic Church * Lithuanian National Catholic Church * Mexican Catholic Apostolic Church * Philippine Independent Church * Polish National Catholic Church * Slovak National Catholic Church See also * Catholic Church (other) * Catholic (other) * Polish Catholic (other) Polish Catholic and Polish Catholic Church may refer to: * The Catholic Church in Poland, mainstream Catholic Church in Poland * One of several churches of Polish Old Catholicism, a form of Old Catholicism ** Polish National Catholic Church (est. c ...

Orthodox Church (other)
Orthodox Church may refer to: * Eastern Orthodox Church * Oriental Orthodox Churches * Orthodox Presbyterian Church * Orthodox Presbyterian Church of New Zealand * State church of the Roman Empire * True Orthodox church See also * Orthodox (other) * Orthodox calendar (other) * Orthodox Communion (other) * Orthodoxy by country (other) * Orthodox Catholic Church (other) * Catholic Church (other) * Neo-orthodoxy In Christianity, Neo-orthodoxy or Neoorthodoxy, also known as theology of crisis and dialectical theology, was a theological movement developed in the aftermath of the First World War. The movement was largely a reaction against doctrines of ...

Roman Catholic Church (other)
Roman Catholic Church, Roman Church or Church of Rome may refer to: * The Catholic Church ** The Latin Church in particular, one of the 24 autonomous (''sui iuris'') churches that constitute the Catholic Church *** Any part of the Latin Church that uses the Roman Rite *** The Diocese of Rome, the local Catholic church of the city of Rome, including Vatican City See also *Roman Catholic (term) * Catholic (other) *Catholic Church (other) *Catholic (term) *Catholicity *Church (other) Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Ch ...

Catholic (other)
Catholic may refer to: Christian denominations * The Catholic Church, the largest Christian Church ** The Latin Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church or Western Catholic Church ** The Eastern Catholic Churches, several Eastern Churches in full communion with Catholic Church * Independent Catholicism, Churches that historically and culturally stem from Catholicism but broke away from the Catholic Church ** The Old Catholic Church, part of Independent Catholicism ** The Philippine Independent Church * Other churches expressing apostolic origins and traditions of catholicity, such as: ** The Eastern Orthodox Church ** Oriental Orthodoxy ** The Assyrian Church of the East ** The Ancient Church of the East ** The Anglican Church Terminology * Catholic (term), an overview of the use of the term in the Four Marks of the Church (''one'', ''holy'', ''catholic'', and ''apostolic'') of the Nicene Creed * Catholicity, the core set of beliefs common to several Catholic denomination ...
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Catholicism (other)
Catholicism primarily designates the faith, doctrine, practice and system of the Catholic Church. It may also refer to: * Catholicity, the core set of beliefs of various Christian denominations * Christian denominations and movements including: ** Anglo-Catholicism, a religious movement of the Anglican Communion *** Affirming Catholicism, a religious movement within the Anglican Communion ** Black Catholicism, the expression of the Catholic Church among African Americans ** Eastern Catholicism, Eastern rite particular churches of the Catholic Church, in full communion with the Pope in Rome *** Greek Catholicism, Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Byzantine Rite (a.k.a. Greek Rite) *** Syriac Catholicism, Eastern Catholic Churches that follow the Syriac Rite ** Folk Catholicism, a religious and social movement within the Catholic Church ** Liberal Catholicism, the liberal branch within the Catholic Church ** National Catholicism, a nationalist branch within the Catholic Churc ...
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Four Marks Of The Church
The Four Marks of the Church, also known as the Attributes of the Church, describes four distinctive adjectives of traditional Christian ecclesiology as expressed in the Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed completed at the First Council of Constantinople in AD 381: "e believein one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church." This ecumenical creed is today recited in the liturgies of the Catholic Church (both Latin and Eastern Rites), the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Assyrian Church of the East, the Moravian Church, the Lutheran Churches, the Methodist Churches, the Presbyterian Churches, the Anglican Communion, and by members of the Reformed Churches, although they interpret it in very different ways, and some Protestants alter the word "Catholic" in the creed, replacing it with the word "Christian". While many doctrines, based on both tradition and different interpretations of the Bible, distinguish one denomination from another (largely explai ...
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State Church Of The Roman Empire
Christianity became the official religion of the Roman Empire when Emperor Theodosius I issued the Edict of Thessalonica in 380, which recognized the catholic orthodoxy of Nicene Christians in the Great Church as the Roman Empire's state religion. Most historians refer to the Nicene church associated with emperors in a variety of ways: as the catholic church, the orthodox church, the imperial church, the imperial Roman church, or the Byzantine church, although some of those terms are also used for wider communions extending outside the Roman Empire. The Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodoxy, and the Catholic Church, all claim to stand in continuity from the Nicene church to which Theodosius granted recognition. Earlier in the 4th century, following the Diocletianic Persecution of 303–313 and the Donatist controversy that arose in consequence, Constantine the Great had convened councils of bishops to define the orthodoxy of the Christian faith and to expand on earlier Chr ...
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Lutheranism
Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched the Reformation, Protestant Reformation. The reaction of the government and church authorities to the international spread of his writings, beginning with the ''Ninety-five Theses'', divided Western Christianity. During the Reformation, Lutheranism became the state religion of numerous states of northern Europe, especially in northern Germany, Scandinavia and the then-Livonian Order. Lutheran clergy became civil servants and the Lutheran churches became part of the state. The split between the Lutherans and the Roman Catholics was made public and clear with the 1521 Edict of Worms: the edicts of the Diet (assembly), Diet condemned Luther and officially banned citizens of the Holy Roman Empire from defending or propagatin ...
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Protestantism
Protestantism is a Christian denomination, branch of Christianity that follows the theological tenets of the Reformation, Protestant Reformation, a movement that began seeking to reform the Catholic Church from within in the 16th century against what its followers perceived to be growing Criticism of the Catholic Church, errors, abuses, and discrepancies within it. Protestantism emphasizes the Christian believer's justification by God in faith alone (') rather than by a combination of faith with good works as in Catholicism; the teaching that Salvation in Christianity, salvation comes by Grace in Christianity, divine grace or "unmerited favor" only ('); the Universal priesthood, priesthood of all faithful believers in the Church; and the ''sola scriptura'' ("scripture alone") that posits the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice. Most Protestants, with the exception of Anglo-Papalism, reject the Catholic doctrine of papal supremacy, ...
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Ancient Church Of The East
The Ancient Church of the East is an Eastern Christian denomination. It branched from the Assyrian Church of the East in 1964, under the leadership of Mar Thoma Darmo (d. 1969). It is one of three Assyrian Churches that claim continuity with the historical Church of the East (the ancient Patriarchal Province of Seleucia-Ctesiphon), the others being the Assyrian Church of the East and the Chaldean Catholic Church. The Ancient Church of the East is headquartered in Baghdad, Iraq. From 1972 until his death in February 2022, the Church was headed by Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Addai II Giwargis. History The Ancient Church of the East began when in 1968 some members of the Assyrian Church of the East, then led by Shimun XXIII Eshai, left it and consecrated their own patriarch, Thoma Darmo. Darmo was strongly opposed to the system of hereditary succession of the position of patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, as well as its adoption of the Gregorian calendar "and oth ...
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