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Canon law (from Ancient Greek: κανών, kanon, a 'straight measuring rod, ruler ') is a set of ordinances and regulations made by ecclesiastical authority (church leadership) for the government of a Christian organization or church and its members. It is the internal ecclesiastical law, or operational policy, governing the Catholic Church ...
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This template may be used to summarize information about a particular Christian leader, usually at the top of an article. Template parameters [Edit template data] This template prefers block formatting of parameters. Parameter Description Type Status Type type Type of leader (Priest, Pope, Cardinal, Antipope, or Coptic Pope). If the leader is none of these, leave blank to default to Bishop ...
American Council of Christian Churches. The American Council of Christian Churches (ACCC) is a fundamentalist organization set up in opposition to the Federal Council of Churches (now National Council of Churches ). The council's motto is Jude 3, "Earnestly contending for the Faith".
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The most successful Christian Gnostic was the priest Valentinus (c. 100 – c. 160), who founded a Gnostic church in Rome and developed an elaborate cosmology. Gnostics considered the material world to be a prison created by a fallen or evil spirit, the god of the material world (called the demiurge ).
The stated mission of The Center for Progressive Christianity is: "To reach out to those for whom organized religion has proved ineffectual, irrelevant, or repressive, as well as to those who have given up on or are unacquainted with it." "To uphold evangelism as an agent of justice and peace." "To give a strong voice both in the churches and ...
Membership. 35 Christian denominations and organizations. Website. www .christianchurchestogether .org. Christian Churches Together in the USA ( CCT) is an organization formed in 2006 to "broaden and expand fellowship, unity and witness among the diverse expressions of Christian traditions in the USA" and represents over 27 million Christians. [1]