FORMATION OF THE INSTITUTE OF CHURCH ELDERS IN THE HIERARCHY OF THE RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH (ON THE MATERIALS OF ORLOV PROVINCE XVIII - BEGINNING OF XX CENTURY) by E. S. Matveeva, E. V. Kuznetsova

“…Each parish was assigned a lay church head, who was responsible for the management and control of the property. …”
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Church Statics and Dynamics (Generalizing the Ecclesiological Discourse) by David Gzgzyan

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Church colleges research project: interim papers by Gay, J, Lazenby, D

“…</p> <ol> <li>A view from the General Synod, the Board of Education and the Diocesan Directors of Education</li> <li>A view from Church schools and theological colleges</li> <li>A preliminary theological critique</li> <li>The first year students</li> <li>The third year and PGCE students</li> <li>The college staff</li> <li>A view from the head teachers of teaching practice schools</li> </ol> <p>Each of the reports was used as promised feedback to the relevant group and also made available more widely to those who wished for copies. …”

Outlandish Christendom: The Catholic Church in India and China by Friedrichs, J

“…When it comes to Catholicism, this is aggravated by the fact that the Church looks to an identifiable head (the Pope) and headquarters (the Vatican) located in distant Europe. …”

Church and secular society: risks and prospects of dialogue by Orlov Mikhail O., Petrova Kristina Yu.

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Seizure of church treasures in the Russian North in the 1920s by I. P. Ponomareva, A. M. Kopirovsky

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«The church cannot be separated from civil history...» by N. N. Smirnov

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Resurrection of the Dead as an Element of Factionalism in the Corinthian Church Community by Pop Andrei D.

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Dialogue of the Catholic Church with the Muslim world: achievements and problems by Alla Aristova

“…Half a century has passed since the time of the Second Vatican Council - half a century for which a significant part of the world has unrecognizably changed - many-sided and trivial global processes have unfolded; new outlines of world civilization have emerged, geographic boundaries and demographic scales of religions have changed - but because of this, the Roman Catholic Church by the mouths of its head and the highest spiritual pastor of Pope Benedict XVI defines the Second Vatican Council as "the most important ecclesiastical event of the 20th century"…”
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The chancel and transept of the church of San Jerónimo de Baza by Juan Manuel Segura Ferrer, César Valero Segura

“…<p>The head of the church of San Jerónimo, a remarkable work of the transition from the late Gothic architecture to the Renaissance in Eastern Andalusia, rose in the second luster of the thirties of the sixteenth century, after the great earthquake that suffered the city of Asset. …”
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Motif of single-headed and double-headed eagle in Raška in the XIII century by Đekić Đorđe N., Milić Dragana M.

“…An eagle can be found as a motif in manuscripts, on the seal, and as part of the church's interior decoration. During King Uroš I and his successors' reigns, double-headed eagles vanished as a symbol of royal dignity, but they remained as a Christian symbol until the end of the XIII century.…”
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The busts of the church hierarchs in the altar of the virgin Peribleptos in Ohrid by Grozdanov Cvetan

“…Hierotheos have their place because they took part in the burial of the Blessed Virgin, and they are also depicted in the Assumption of the Virgin, in the same church. The other painted hierarchs - patriarch of Alexandria John the Almsgiver, patriarch Meletios of Antioch, as well as the aforementioned hierarchs were at the head of the old and renowned Christian centres - Cyprus, Crete and Iconium. …”
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Whether Christian electorate in Europe exists? Church, Believers and Politicians by Roman Lunkin

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The Orthodoxy on Crimean Peninsula: the Church Structure in the New Geopolitical Situation by Lunkin R., Stepashina T.

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Coping Strategies of Women in the Churches in Dealing With Gender Based Violence by Dr Kelebogile Thomas Resane, Dr Lufuluvhi Maria Mudimeli

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The soviet power’s attitude to the Latvian Orthodox Church in 1940–1941 by Gavrilin Aleksandr

“…The management of the Church was changed too: the Head of Latvia’s and Estonia’s exarchate Sergiy (Voskresensky), the metropolitan of Vilensk and Lithuanian, instead of Augustine (Peterson), the metropolitan Riga and Latvia. …”
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Cathedrals and churches of the pilgrimage routes for Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela by Rasha Ahmed

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Discussing the Church Mandate considering Matthew 28:19-20 by Kalis Stevanus, Yonathan Alex Arifianto, Alvonce Poluan, Jamin Tanhidy, Tan Lie Lie, Iswahyudi

“…The purpose of raising this topic is so that the church can be reminded of the correct paradigm regarding the double mandate commanded by Jesus Christ the Head of the church in Matthew 28:19-20 and Matthew 22:34-40. …”
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“CENTOCHIESE”: A HUNDRED CHURCHES IN ROME. AN ARCHIVAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIC PROJECT by G. Fangi, C. Nardinocchi, G. Rubeca

“…It is for this reason that in Rome there is the greatest concentration in the world of Roman buildings, monuments and Christian buildings and churches. Rome is the seat of the papacy; say the head of the Christian Church. …”
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The fresco at the entrance to Danilo II church of the Mother of God at Peć by Milanović Vesna

“…It involves the concept that accords with the circumstance that the donor and the commissioner of the fresco was the newly-consecrated archbishop, as well as with the fact that the church belonged to the archiépiscopal see, of which he was the head. …”
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