Sentence examples for regional church from inspiring English sources

Other losses included Elizabeth Clare Prophet, leader of the Church Universal and Triumphant, and Lutheran Bishop Albrecht Schönherr, who had headed the regional church of Berlin-Brandenburg in the former German Democratic Republic.

"But the bulldozing amounts to a victory for us," said Ceci Schickel, chief organizer for Philadelphia Interfaith Action, a regional church and civic association.

Arguing for a dual-will faculty in Christ, Maximus was called to Rome, where he supported the condemnation of Monothelitism by a regional church council under Pope Martin I in 649.

Tipping point: Our regional Church council invited me along to speak on writing a submission [to the government that will inform what they bring to the UN Climate Conference in Paris].

Mr. Twede said that last Sunday, after he attended a worship service at his congregational meetinghouse in Orlando for only the second time, he was called into an office and "interrogated" for 45 minutes by the bishop; the stake president, who is a regional church authority; and two councilors, none of whom he had previously met.

He helped rebuild the Evangelical Church in Germany, becoming head of its foreign-relations office in 1945 and a member of the Council of the Church in 1948, and from 1947 until 1964 he served as president of the Hesse-Nassau regional church.

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

In Thumma's view, the strength and independence of the New England towns has militated against the development of regional churches.

To safeguard Lutheran confessional concerns, the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (Vereinigte Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Deutschlands, VELKD) was established in 1948 as the federation of Lutheran regional churches.

In the urban and suburbanized parts of southern Connecticut, the towns may be losing their coherence, for regional churches have begun to spring up.

A spokesman for the Vatican said that regional churches were already co-operating with investigators.America's ambassador to Russia, Michael McFaul, announced he was stepping down after just two years.