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As of 2017, it had 87 churches, 26,000 active baptized members, and an Average Sunday Attendance of 10,592.The diocese and its parishes sponsor twenty-eight parochial schools and preschools, including TMI Episcopal (founded as "West Texas Military Academy"), a boarding college-preparatory school on the outskirts of San Antonio.
Under the leadership of Dr. Arthur Ben Chitty, the association launched a newsletter that later became The Historiographer. Through this communication tool, NEHA has come to define its role as an archival and historical professional society for those who participate in preserving and exploring the historical dimensions of the Episcopal Church.
Falls Church, an independent city in Virginia, United States, takes its name from The Falls Church, an 18th-century parish of the Church of England. Falls Church gained township status within Fairfax County in 1875. In 1948, it was incorporated as the City of Falls Church, an independent city with county-level governance status.
HemisFair '68 was the official 1968 World's Fair (or International Exposition) held in San Antonio, Texas, from April 6 through October 6, 1968.Local businessman and civic leader, Jerome K. Harris Sr., [1] coined the name HemisFair and conceived the idea for the fair, hoping it would unite all the cultures that comprise San Antonio and solidify the city's reputation as a cultural and historic ...
The American Society of Church History (ASCH) was founded in 1888 [1] with the disciplines of Christian denominational and ecclesiastical history as its focus. Today the society's interests include the broad range of the critical scholarly perspectives, as applied to the history of Christianity and its relationship to surrounding cultures in all periods, locations, and contexts.
This scene is accompanied by images of the land rush and colonization. At the right side of the north wall, the first locomotive arrives in San Antonio and is met by a torchlit procession. Near the corner, a Confederate flag alludes to Texas' involvement in the Civil War. The eastern wall depicts the development of the Texas economy.
The original constitution adopted at Greenville College in Greenville, Illinois in the fall of 1967, listed the purpose of the CFH as the following: 1) "To encourage evangelical Christian scholars to explore the relationship of their faith to historical studies"; 2) "To provide a forum for discussion of philosophies of history and to survey current scholarship and foster research in the ...
East Falls Church may refer to: East Falls Church, Virginia , an unincorporated community in Arlington County East Falls Church station on the Washington Metro