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"The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered." –Augsburg Confession [8] Christian theologians such as Bostwick Hawley teach that church membership is commanded in scripture, grounding this in the fact that "apostolic letters are addressed to the Churches", "Apostolic salutations are to Churches", "Jesus Christ is ...
Sharon E. Watkins,1972. Sharon E. Watkins (born 1954) is an ordained Christian minister who became the first woman to lead a mainline denomination in North America in 2005, when she was elected the General Minister and President of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) in the United States and Canada.
[1] or refer collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christian civilization dominates [2] or nations in which Christianity is the established religion. Christian - a person who adheres to Christianity , a monotheistic [ 3 ] religion centered on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ as presented in the New Testament ...
Catholic clergy at the consecration of the Sacred Heart Cathedral, Sarajevo (1889).. Clergy are formal leaders within established religions.Their roles and functions vary in different religious traditions, but usually involve presiding over specific rituals and teaching their religion's doctrines and practices.
A prelate is a member of the clergy having a special canonical jurisdiction over a territory or a group of people. [citation needed] Usually, a prelate is a bishop. Prelate sometimes refers to the clergy of a state church with a formal hierarchy, and suggests that the prelate enjoys legal privileges and power as a result of clerical status.
Joseph W. Tkach (/ t ə ˈ k ɒ tʃ /; March 16, 1927 – September 23, 1995) was the appointed successor of Herbert W. Armstrong, founder of the Worldwide Church of God.Tkach became president and pastor general of the church upon the death of Armstrong in 1986.
The church declined to go into details, saying only that he had behaved in "inappropriate and hurtful" ways to "current and former members of the Cross Timbers family and staff."
The cantor's locality in the church is most generally to the right of the choir, and directly to his left is his assistant, formerly called the succentor. A common custom for cantors was the bearing of the staff, which was the mark of his dignity and a visual representative of his sacred role inside the church.