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Scholars assume that a simple and uniform liturgy existed in western Europe until the end of the 5th century and that only in the 6th century did the Gallican church develop its own rite and chant with Oriental influences.

BioLogos differs from ASA in specifically focusing on the issues about evolution, and striving towards a mission "to help the church develop a worldview that embraces both of these complex but complementary ways of understanding the world and our place in it".

The Coptic Orthodox Church developed a democratic system of government after the 1890s.

As the early church developed it was monastic, without parochial or diocesan divisions or central government.

A dissident church developed to oppose state-supported orthodoxy and became a focus of indigenous Egyptian loyalties.

After Jesus was crucified and resurrected, Mormons believe, he came to preach to the group and a church developed, only to fall into apostasy until Smith restored it.

The Commons, acting as a "lay synod" of the church, developed an increasing sense of responsibility and accountability in religious matters.

Many of the cultural centres of the Western church developed distinctive characteristics while sharing the common heritage of the Hebrew liturgy and Greek culture.

In spite of these very strong religious and emotional restraints, the church developed a form of art peculiar to its needs.

In the Middle Ages, Georgia experienced several periods of political expansion, during which the church developed remarkably rich traditions of art, architecture, and literature.

While the US Episcopal church developed a maverick reputation within the Anglican communion for blessing same sex marriages and ordaining gay and lesbian clergy, the House of Bishops of the General Synod of the Church of England's report Some Issues in Human Sexuality, issued in 2003, contained a chapter titled "Transsexualism".