Sentence examples for a major church from inspiring English sources

Monastic establishments moved even farther to the south; for example, a major church was founded near Lake Hayk in the 9th century.

To see a senior member of a major church supporting a protest that had included the harassment of individual women was utterly sickening.

And on 1 February, French authorities gave just one hour's notice before demolishing an area of the camp containing a major church and mosque, contradicting original promises that these structures would remain untouched.

In earlier times the designation had occasionally been used, like archimandrite and exarch, for a superior abbot; but the title eventually came to denote a bishop who, while head of a major church, was still in some way dependent on his patriarch.

In the last decade they've opened both a major church near St Paul's Cathedral and the Dianetics and Scientology Life Improvement Center on Tottenham Court Road.

In the last 10 years they've opened both a major church near St Paul's Cathedral and the Dianetics and Scientology Life Improvement Centre on Tottenham Court Road.

Among the earlier cases that are still undecided are those on the Food and Drug Administration's authority to regulate tobacco products and on the constitutionality of the Violence Against Women Act, as well as a major church-state conflict over federal financing for computer equipment in religious schools.

The Rev. Dr. Elam Davies, pastor emeritus of the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago, who helped it build a major church-sponsored community services institution on the city's Near North Side, died Friday in Bethlehem, Pa., where he had retired in the 1980's.

Bintaran was one of four centres of Catholic presence in Yogyakarta at the time, along with Kidul Loji, Kotabaru, and Pugeran; each major church served a wide area, and the priests from the major churches gave sermons in the furthest reaches of their parishes.

She will be the first American Indian woman to become a bishop in a major Christian church.

About 80 percent of residents, most of whom are descendants of Dutch immigrants, belong to a major denomination church, compared with 36 percent of all Americans.