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The Catholic Church during the Age of Discovery inaugurated a major effort to spread Christianity in the New World and to convert the indigenous peoples of the Americas and other indigenous peoples. The evangelical effort was a major part of, and a justification for, the military conquests of European powers such as Portugal , Spain , and France .
Historian John McGreevy identifies a major Catholic revival that swept across Europe, North America and South America in the early 19th century. Historians call it “Ultramontanism.” shorthand for a cluster of shifts that included a Vatican-fostered move to Thomistic philosophy.
The first Christian worship service held in the current United States was a Catholic Mass celebrated in Pensacola, Florida (St. Michael records). [ citation needed ] The Spanish spread Roman Catholicism through Spanish Florida by way of its mission system ; these missions extended into Georgia and the Carolinas .
The banners are those of the Sovereign (right) and of the Grand Master (left) of the Royal Victorian Order as they were then in office. The chapel has been Crown property for centuries as part of the Savoy Hospital estate, and remains under the aegis of the monarch as part of the Duchy of Lancaster and thereby is a Royal Peculiar.
[8] [9] In the late 19th and early 20th century, most major American Protestant denominations started overseas missionary activity. The " Mainline Protestant " denominations promoted the " Social Gospel " in the early 20th century, calling on Americans to reform their society; the demand for prohibition of liquor was especially strong.
Christianity and colonialism are associated with each other by some due to the service of Christianity, in its various denominations (namely Protestantism, Catholicism and Orthodoxy), as the state religion of the historical European colonial powers, in which Christians likewise made up the majority. [1]
This is a list of notable Anglican bishops who converted to the Catholic Church.. A broad definition of 'Anglican' is employed here, including churches within the Anglican Communion, but also those of the Continuing Anglican movement which formed following controversy over various actual or proposed theological and doctrinal reforms, such as the ordination of women.
"Any person who is able to represent the congregation" of the place of worship—for example, a pastor, minister or trustee—may fill in a form published by the Home Office, Certifying a Place of Meeting for Religious Worship (Form 76), and send it to the Superintendent General of the General Register Office or a local Superintendent Registrar.