Sentence examples for church order from inspiring English sources

The church order declared that the king was ruler of the Church in the same way that he ruled the country and God ruled the world.

On the other side of the spectrum is Cardinal Cipriani, a member of Opus Dei, an ultraconservative church order.

Most Protestant bodies, notably the Anglicans, developed their own versions of canon law or rules of church order and discipline.

Nevertheless, most Prussian regional churches had by then adopted a uniform church order, taking the name Churches of the Prussian Union.

Didachē, ( Greek: "Teaching", ) also called Teaching Of The Twelve Apostles, the oldest surviving Christian church order, probably written in Egypt or Syria in the 2nd century.

The Reformers based their teaching on the free-flowing sense of authority that existed between Christ and his Apostles, who were pictured in the Gospels as unencumbered by an elaborate clerical church order.

Bradley took church orders and became vicar of Bridstow in 1719.

At the same time, new church orders soon developed, and Protestants often acted as legalistically as did the Roman Catholics, whom they were repudiating.

The church ordered that Mr. Burdick not be permitted to take part in the editing, overdubbing or mastering of the recordings, he and the producer, Bettina Covo, said.

In 1942 Social Justice was banned from the U.S. mails for violating the Espionage Act, and in the same year the American Catholic church ordered Coughlin to stop his broadcasts.

His legacy lives on in the confessions, liturgy, and church orders of the Reformed churches of today.