schismatic Church

This practice fell into desuetude in the second millennium, but has been revived in some schismatic churches.

All the other works seem animated by a kind of medieval religiosity, too, as though they had been exhumed from an ancient, long forgotten schismatic church.

Novatian was shortly afterwards excommunicated: the schismatic church which he established persisted for several centuries (see Novatianism).

Schismatic churches fissioned from the main mass: the Arians, the Nestorians, the Monophysites.

Fifty-one bishoprics are attested for Egypt in 325; fifteen are only known otherwise as seats of the schismatic Church.

An enfeebled Pope seized his call to arms as a godsend to unite a schismatic church and two Holy Roman Empires.

Presently, there are two communions that reject each other and in addition - some schismatic churches not in any communion, all three groups identifying as Eastern Orthodox.

In the remaining divisions the author examines the relations of the pope and the temporal powers, civilization and the welfare of nations, and the schismatic Churches.

He had to deal with an apostate priest, Charles Paschal Chiniquy, who had set up a schismatic church in Kankakee, Illinois.

The head of the schismatic church in New England is the Archpresbyter of Arnoldstown (named after Benedict Arnold).

This became an increasing source of tension in the Polish-American community, resulting in the founding of schismatic churches in the Polish community.

As to the schismatic Churches, Maistre believed that they would fall into philosophic indifference as Catholicism was the only religion fully capable of being compatible with science.

In line with general canonical opinion, the Holy See holds that Archbishop Lefebvre committed a schismatic act, but not that he created a schismatic Church.

He was arrested on November 18, 1952 because of his support for the Catholic Church in communion with Rome, and not the schismatic church that the regime was creating.

Only bishops have such discretion, which may be used on the occasion of a conversion to Orthodoxy, in order to grant recognition to a baptism previously administered in a heterodox or schismatic church.

"If you pick up your marbles and leave the game, you're just another schismatic church listed in the Yellow Pages of any major city in America," said James Solheim, a spokesman for the Episcopal Church.

All kinds of pressures are brought on the Catholics of Janjevo (400 families, almost all of Slavic origin) for the purpose of forcing them to give up their religion and accept the conversion to the schismatic church.

Shortly thereafter, the Russian Orthodox Church, unable to prevent the creation of what it viewed as a "schismatic church" in independent Ukraine, helped to organize a rival synod which was held in Kharkiv in May 1992.

The fighters known as Cristeros fought the government due to its suppression of the Church, jailing and execution of priests, formation of a nationalist schismatic church, state atheism, Socialism, Freemasonry and other harsh anti-Catholic policies.

At the University of Paris he advocated the establishment of chairs for Eastern languages to teach these languages to those who would labour for the conversion of the Muslims and the reunion of the schismatic churches in the East.

He supported Pope Cornelius in the controversy of 251, arising when Novatian, a learned presbyter of the Church at Rome, set up a schismatic church with a rigorist position on the readmittance of Christians who had apostasized during the persecution.

Before the Croatian Orthodox Church was formed, the NDH officially described the Eastern Orthodox Church as the "Greek-Eastern Church", and would refer to it as the "Schismatic Church" or the "Greek non-Uniate Church".