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    teaching their religion's doctrines and practices. Some of the terms used for individual clergy are clergyman, clergywoman, clergyperson, churchman, cleric...
    68 KB (8,144 words) - 19:39, 30 August 2024
  • Clerical celibacy is the requirement in certain religions that some or all members of the clergy be unmarried. Clerical celibacy also requires abstention...
    85 KB (10,954 words) - 03:59, 15 August 2024
  • The Pontifical Missionary Union (PMU) is a Catholic missionary society founded by blessed Paolo Manna in 1916, a missionary who served in Myanmar. Its...
    5 KB (561 words) - 03:09, 29 June 2023
  • Thumbnail for Persecution of Christians in the Soviet Union
    the state ideology were not protected). Lukewarm clergy were tolerated while clergy with a missionary zeal could be deregistered. People who were more...
    114 KB (15,848 words) - 18:12, 12 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for William Carey (missionary)
    Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore...
    45 KB (5,452 words) - 08:28, 27 August 2024
  • suspected of spying by Māori in 1865, the fact that he was a member of the Anglican clergy afforded him no protection, and he was executed. After missionary work...
    53 KB (5,560 words) - 22:31, 14 August 2024
  • Hugh O'Neill (bishop) (category New Zealand people of Irish descent)
    Dominion organiser of the Pontifical Missionary Works, the Propagation of the Faith, the Holy Childhood, and the Missionary Union of the Clergy. Early in 1943...
    4 KB (385 words) - 04:40, 20 October 2023
  • Presbyterian missionary, teacher Oliver Crane (1848), Presbyterian clergy, missionary, Oriental scholar, writer Nelson Cruikshank (Master of divinity, 1929) –...
    40 KB (4,294 words) - 06:03, 24 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Society of the Divine Word
    The Society of the Divine Word (Latin: Societas Verbi Divini), abbreviated SVD and popularly called the Verbites or the Divine Word Missionaries, and sometimes...
    28 KB (3,354 words) - 12:04, 27 August 2024
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    Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg (category Missionary linguists)
    (24 June 1683 – 23 February 1719) was a member of the Lutheran clergy and the first Pietist missionary to India. Ziegenbalg was born in Pulsnitz, Saxony...
    28 KB (3,726 words) - 00:33, 2 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Episcopal Church (United States)
    the Church of England, whose clergy are required to swear allegiance to the British monarch as Supreme Governor of the Church of England. The Episcopal...
    157 KB (16,899 words) - 17:53, 21 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of Lutheran clergy
    This is a listing of the major offices within the Lutheran churches, as well as significant individual Lutheran clergy. Presidents of the Lutheran World...
    18 KB (1,509 words) - 08:36, 20 May 2023
  • Thumbnail for Church of the Province of Myanmar
    H. Titcomb (the first bishop of Rangoon (Yangon) ) 1878 Four Karens were ordained as deacons and they are the first native Karen clergy. Samuel Abishe...
    30 KB (3,894 words) - 22:03, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
    quasi-denominational structures through missionary societies, regional associations, and an international convention. In 1968, the Disciples of Christ officially adopted...
    70 KB (7,981 words) - 19:38, 20 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Vincent Pallotti
    of the Pontifical Missionary Union of Clergy. When Pallotti's body was exhumed in 1906 and 1950, examiners found his body to be incorrupt, a sign of holiness...
    11 KB (1,214 words) - 19:50, 16 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Church of England
    aside from the Clergy Discipline Measure 2003. The clergy union argued that the penalty was unfair to victims of hypothetical miscarriages of criminal justice...
    137 KB (14,638 words) - 15:34, 27 August 2024
  • Armenian Evangelical Church (category Evangelical denominations established in the 19th century)
    Evangelical Church of Armenia Armenian Evangelical Union of North America (AEUNA) Armenian Missionary Association of America (AMAA) Union of Armenian Evangelical...
    6 KB (347 words) - 23:22, 24 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Fort Lowell Union Church
    embracing the mission church tradition, the Fort Lowell Union Church not only maintained the spiritual values associated with early missionary work in the region...
    10 KB (1,396 words) - 11:14, 9 September 2024
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    Daniel Sysoev (category Eastern Orthodox missionaries)
    1974–2009) was a Russian Orthodox priest, the rector of St. Thomas' church in southern Moscow, and a prominent missionary. He was killed in his church in Moscow...
    5 KB (401 words) - 00:40, 25 June 2024
  • Arthur Glasser (category American Protestant missionaries)
    of missionary service in China. Glasser was born in Paterson, New Jersey and graduated from Cornell University, Faith Theological Seminary and Union Seminary...
    3 KB (295 words) - 19:52, 18 May 2024
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