Protestant historians would typically argue that this is historically what the Christian church was before the Emperor Constantine legalized Christianity (see Early Christianity) and before the later setting up of the state church of the Roman Empire, and did not appear again until the appearance, within the Protestant Reformation, of groups such as the Calvinists and radical movements such as the Anabaptists.
In 1972 Mannila became an independent church Mar Antony Padiyara Archbisop declared Mannila as an independent church in 1972.
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# Jin Mingri, senior pastor of the free church called Zion Church in Beijing was shortly detained to be prevented from attending Lausanne Conference in South Africa.
During the visit of Dwight L. Moody to Britain in 1874 and 1875, Moody was warmly welcomed by Bonar, despite the latter receiving considerable criticism from other Calvinist ministers in the Free Church.
Rev John Kirk 1795–1858, divine and biographer (of Susannah Wesley mother of John Wesley, The Mother of the Wesleys, Jarrold, London 1868), Church of Scotland minister in Arbirlot 1837–1843 and later first Free Church of Scotland minister in Arbirlot
The Free Church of Scotland, an evangelical presbyterian church formed in 1843 when its founders withdrew from the Church of Scotland, also known as the Kirk.
Mackay, who had by now been appointed by the YMCA to be secretary-at-large for South America, passed on Money’s name to the Free Church of Scotland.
Peddie was Minister of Kennoway United Free Church and then the High United Free Church in Aberdeen followed by 6 years as Minister of Westbourne Church, Barrhead, Glasgow.
The congregation started as Hillhead Free Church in 1854, although it was initially a "preaching station" rather than a "sanctioned charge" of the Free Church of Scotland.
New Connexions Free Church is a church in the Cambridgeshire city of Ely.
This Victorian building was originally built as Holyrood Free Church (a congregation of the Free Church of Scotland, then from 1900 United Free Church of Scotland), but was last used for worship in 1915.
Camps were organized every year at twenty-four centres, mostly English cathedrals, but also some larger parish churches and some Church of Scotland, free church and Roman Catholic places of worship.
Ruth Evensen (born 1951 in Gladsaxe, Denmark) is the co-founder and leader of the Christian free church Faderhuset which became widely known for its controversial purchase of Ungdomshuset in Copenhagen.
The congregation has its roots in three separate congregations of the United Free Church of Scotland, namely St John's UF Church and Renfield UF Church (both located in Glasgow's city centre) and Hyndland UF Church.
Phatfish singer Lou Fellingham grew up in the village and attended the Free Church.
Paul Petter Waldenström (1838-1917), Swedish theologian who became the most prominent leader of the free church movement in late 19th century Sweden.