Sentence examples for church centres from inspiring English sources
Some of the schisms were theological conflicts foreshadowed in the apostolic church; others were internal quarrels related to liturgical differences, power politics between different patriarchates or church centres, problems of discipline and piety, or social and cultural conflicts.
Our Church centres around beliefs in love and loving other people.
These were particularly elaborate in the Byzantine church, centred in Constantinople.
The development of cults of martyrs and other saints in the medieval church centred on the veneration of their relics, which were often divided among several churches.
Philip North, the bishop of Burnley, said the church centred its resources too heavily on the middle class and said it must step up its presence among poor communities.
For two decades the region was plagued with wars that inspired the social and revolutionary elements of millennialism and that led to the establishment of a national church centred in Prague.
Ms Warhurst and the rest of the Incredible Edible team are now looking forward to their Christmas treat – a home-cooked dinner of turkey and all the trimmings in a local church centre, with every ingredient sourced locally.
In modern times the name has been applied to members of a Protestant church (centred on the Franco-Italian border) that formed when remnants of the earlier movement became Swiss Protestant Reformers.
The Norman venture, however, brought the papacy into conflict with the Eastern church centred in Constantinople, which, since the 8th century, had exercised jurisdiction over large areas of southern Italy and Sicily.
Earlier, the prince visited the Coptic Orthodox church centre in Stevenage, Hertfordshire, where he was presented with an icon of St George for himself and his baby grandson Prince George.
In modern times the name has been applied to members of a Protestant church (centred on the Franco-Italian border) that formed when remnants of the earlier movement became Swiss Protestant reformers.
