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2005 United Church of Christ becomes first Protestant denomination to support same-sex marriage in the U.S., and one of the first denominations worldwide to do so 2006 Legion of Christ begins to rapidly decline following the disgrace of its founder Marcial Maciel
The History of the Catholic Church, From the Apostolic Age to the Third Millennium James Hitchcock, Ph.D. Ignatius Press, 2012 ISBN 978-1-58617-664-8; Triumph: The Power and the Glory of the Catholic Church. Crocker, H.W. Bokenkotter, Thomas. A Concise History of the Catholic Church. Revised and expanded ed. New York: Image Books Doubleday, 2005.
Timeline of the Roman Catholic Church – As the oldest branch of Christianity, along with Eastern Orthodoxy, the history of the Catholic Church plays an integral part of the History of Christianity as a whole. This article covers a period of just under 2,000 years.
In Connecticut and Massachusetts one denomination received state funding, and other churches began to lobby to end that. [529] In 1791, the United States became the first predominantly Christian nation to mandate the separation of church and state. Theological pluralism became the new norm in the new country. [530] [531]
The Eastern Orthodox Church, officially the Orthodox Catholic Church, claims continuity (based upon apostolic succession) with the early Church as part of the state church of Rome. The Eastern Orthodox Church had about 230 million members as of 2019 [update] , making it the second largest single denomination behind the Catholic Church.
History of the Roman Catholic Church; History of the Eastern Orthodox Church; History of Christian theology#Late Scholasticism and its contemporaries; History of Oriental Orthodoxy; Timeline of Christianity#Middle Ages; Timeline of Christian missions#Middle Ages; Timeline of the Roman Catholic Church#800–1453
The American Revolution inflicted deeper wounds on the Church of England in America than on any other denomination because the King of England was the head of the church. The Book of Common Prayer offered prayers for the monarch, beseeching God "to be his defender and keeper, giving him victory over all his enemies", who in 1776 were American ...
2009: The Church of Scientology in France was fined €600,000 and several of its leaders were fined and imprisoned for defrauding new recruits of their savings. [87] [88] [89] The state failed to disband the church owing to legal changes occurring over the same time period. [89] [90] 2011: Civil war broke out in Syria over domestic political ...