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380 BC

Pytheas, Greek explorer, who will explore northwestern Europe, including the British Isles (d. c. 310 BC) (approximate date)

Adam Pastor

Adam Pastor was born Roelof Martens or Martin, at Dörpen, Westphalia, and was a Catholic priest at Aschendorf till 1533 when he joined the peaceful wing of the Anabaptists.

Andreas Räss

André Raess (German: Andreas Räss) (6 April 1794, Sigolsheim, Haut-Rhin - 17 November 1887, Strasbourg) was an Alsatian Catholic Bishop of Strasbourg.

Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium

The Apostolic Nuncio to Belgium is the holder of a diplomatic position within the Catholic Church, who acts as Ambassador of the Holy See to the Belgium.

Apple Creek, Missouri

In the early 1820s German Catholic immigrants from the Baden area were the first to settle Apple Creek.

Battle of Pharos

An expedition of 10,000 men in 300 ships sailed out from Zadar and laid siege to the Greek colony Pharos in the island of Hvar, but the Syracusan fleet of Dionysus was alerted and attacked the siege fleet.

Ben Webb

Benjamin Joseph Webb (1814–1897), Catholic editor, senator and historian

Blasphemy law

In December 2003, Greece prosecuted for blasphemy Gerhard Haderer, an Austrian, along with his Greek publisher and four booksellers.

Buddhist influences on Christianity

There were some contacts between Gnostics and Indians, e.g. Syrian gnostic theologian Bar Daisan describes in the 3rd century his exchanges with missions of holy men from India (Greek: Σαρμαναίοι, Sramanas), passing through Syria on their way to Elagabalus or another Severan dynasty Roman Emperor.

Death of Aristotelis Goumas

The ethnic Greek mayor of Himarë, Vasil Bollano, spoke of a "premeditated crime" as the suspects had been "provoking the victim for days".

Demetris Th. Gotsis

Songs of Theodore Oesten (Του Έστεν τα τραγούδια), Children's poetry for Oesten's music in Greek, Nicosia, 1991.

Demetrius Comino

After graduating with a first class honours degree in 1924, Comino served a three-year apprenticeship with British Thomson-Houston in Rugby before leaving to establish a printing business, Krisson Printing Ltd, near Oxford Circus in central London ("Krisson" being Greek for 'better').

Donna Haraway

Haraway's father was a sportswriter for The Denver Post and her mother, who came from a heavily Irish Catholic background, died when she was 16 years old.

Downtown College Prep

The school received considerable help in its formation from Father Mateo Sheedy, pastor of Sacred Heart Catholic church, and its advisory board and eventual board of trustees included then-mayor of San Jose Ron Gonzales, Robert Caret, then-president of San Jose State, Tony Ridder, CEO of Knight Ridder, then headquartered in San Jose, and Greg Jamison, president of the San Jose Sharks hockey team.

Egon Wolff

The formation of the Teatro Experimental de la Universidad de Chile (Experimental Theatre of the University of Chile) in 1941, followed by the founding of the Teatro del Ensayo de la Universidad Catolica (TEUC) (Theatre Actor Studio of the Catholic University) in 1943 created a qualitative change in Chilean theatre.

Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

Members of the IAG included: Azerbaijan, France, Nigeria, Norway, Peru and the United States; Anglo-American, BP, Chevron and Petrobras; the Azerbaijan EITI Coalition, Global Witness, Revenue Watch Institute, West African Catholic Bishops Conference; and F&C Asset Management.

Frank Burton Ellis

The Presbyterian Ellis even vowed to go to Rome to plead with Pope Paul VI to order such shelters in the basement of every Catholic church.

Fryburg, Ohio

Fryburg is well known for its annual Homecoming Festival, held the Sunday before Labor Day at St. John's Roman Catholic Church.

George Mayer

Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Roman Catholic Archbishop Emeritus of the Archdiocese of Bahía Blanca, Argentina

Harold Ambellan

After living several years in Montparnasse, one of the principal artistic communities of Paris, Ambellan decided to settle in the Greek-Roman enclave town of Antibes on the Côte d'Azur.

Jim Shepard

His recent collection, Like You'd Understand Anyway, includes stories about the Greek playwright Aeschylus, the Chernobyl disaster and the 1964 Alaska earthquake.

Josiah S. Carberry

The lecture, on "Archaic Greek Architectural Revetments in Connection with Ionian Philology" was, of course, never given, and when asked, John Spaeth obligingly provided false details about the professor's (fictional) family and (non-existent) academic interests.

Lakeshore Catholic High School

In addition to this the Lakeshore Catholic Concert and Jazz bands are always ranked highly at festivals and competitions, the most recent of which is the attaining of a Gold level Standing in the regional Golden Horseshoe Festival and A Silver standing at the National MusicFest Canada Competition.

Lasata

Jackie's father John Vernou Bouvier III married Janet Norton Lee at St. Philomena's Catholic Church in East Hampton on July 7, 1928.

Leo Brent Bozell

L. Brent Bozell, Jr. (1926–1997), American conservative activist and Catholic writer

Linking and intrusive R

Other recognizable examples are the Beatles singing: "I saw-r-a film today, oh boy" in the song "A Day in the Life", from their 1967 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album, at the Sanctus in the Catholic Mass: "Hosanna-r-in the highest" and in the phrases, "Law-r-and order" and "Victoria-r-and Albert Museum".

Locrians

James M. Redfield, professor of Classics at the University of Chicago, in his book The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek Italy, states that the Locrians of Epizephyrian Locri had a special way to treat the sex difference.

Lubocza, Kraków

In 1928 came (for the metropolitan councils of Prince Adam Stefan Sapieha) Norbertine sisters, to give children a free, Catholic education.

Manuel Candamo

One of them, Teresa De La Cruz, founded the convent Canonesas de La Cruz, and was given the title of Servant of God in 1981 by the Catholic Church, which means her life is being studied in order to eventually grant her the title of Saint.

Martin Cellarius

In 1520, he moved to the University of Ingolstadt, where he took up the study of Greek and Hebrew, and theology under Johann Eck.

Michel René Barnes

Along with Lewis Ayres, professor of Catholic and historical theology in the University of Durham, and Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Barnes is part of a rereading of Augustine's trinitarian theology that contradicts the older, neoplatonic-centered account.

Monitum

On June 29, 2002, Romulo Antonio Braschi, the founder of a schismatic community, attempted to confer priestly ordination on the following Catholic women : Christine Mayr-Lumetzberger, Adelinde Theresia Roitinger, Gisela Forster, Iris Müller, Ida Raming, Pia Brunner and Angela White.

Ninth Commandment

"You shall not bear false witness against your neighbor" under the Philonic division used by Hellenistic Jews, Greek Orthodox and Protestants except Lutherans, or the Talmudic division of the third-century Jewish Talmud.

Paraportiani

The Church of Panagia Paraportiani (Greek: Εκκλησία της Παναγίας της Παραπορτιανής) is situated in the neighbourhood of Kastro, in the town of Chora, on the Greek island of Mykonos.

Peleides

Peleides, Achilles son of Peleus in Greek history born around 1300 BC died around 1275 BC

Phaethusa

:This article is about the Greek Goddess, for the bird genus see Large-billed Tern.

Pigres

Pigres of Halicarnassus first ancient Greek poet, who introduced the iambic trimeter.

Pope Pius XIII

Lucian Pulvermacher, leader of the "true Catholic Church", a small conclavist group

Richard Miles

Richard Pius Miles (1791–1860), Roman Catholic Bishop of Nashville, 1838–1860

Sacred Heart Malankara Catholic Church, Mylapra

Sacred Heart Malankara Syrian Catholic Church or referred as S H Church is located in the village of Mylapra, near Pathanamthitta on the road side of the Main Eastern Highway in the Indian state of Kerala.

Sandalphon

The Babylonian Talmud Hagigah 13b says Sandalphon's head reaches Heaven, which is also said of Israfil and of the Greek monster Typhon, with whom Sandalphon seems to have similar mythological roots.

Sebastian Castellio

Having been educated at the age of twenty at the University of Lyon, Castellio was fluent in both French and Italian, and became an expert in Latin, Hebrew and Greek as well.

Stratioti

Apart from the Albanian stradioti, Greek and Italian ones were also deployed in the Battle of Fornovo.

Tilea

In the fictional universe of Warhammer Fantasy, Tilea is the region of the warhammer world roughly analogous with that of renaissance Italy and Polis, an ancient Greek city-states.

Toxicology

Dioscorides, a Greek physician in the court of the Roman emperor Nero, made the first attempt to classify plants according to their toxic and therapeutic effect.

Vivartia

Vivartia is the result of the merger of Delta Holding S.A., which included Delta Dairy Products, Goody's, Flocafé and Mechelany foods as well as a dozen other major Greek food and beverages related corporations of the nutritions field, with the snack and bakery business lines of Chipita.

Vivo per lei

There is also a Greek version called Se Thelo edo sung by Dimitra Galani and Giorgos Karadimos.

Walle Plough

The scratch plough type is known through finds and images from the Neolithic, the Bronze and Iron Ages, as well as from Hallstatt culture, Etruscan, Greek and Roman contexts.

Woodside School, Ooty

The school motto is 'Sapere Aude' (Dare to be wise), a quote from the writings of the Greek philosopher Horace.

Zanobi Acciaioli

He learned Greek and Hebrew towards the latter part of his life, and was appointed in 1518 prefect of the Vatican Library.


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Anatole Vakhnianyn

He came from a clerical family; his father, Klym Vakhnianyn, and grandfather, Iakiv Vakhnyanin, were Greek-Catholic priests.

Andrey Sheptytsky

In 1899, following the death of Cardinal Sylvester Sembratovych, Sheptytsky was nominated by Emperor Franz Joseph to fill the vacant position of Ukrainian Greek Catholic Bishop of Stanyslaviv (now Ivano-Frankivsk), and Pope Leo XIII concurred.

Archdiocese of Lviv

Ukrainian Catholic Archeparchy of Lviv, an archeparchy of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church

Basil Kovpak

The Society of St. Josaphat holds possession of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic parish church in the village of Ivano-Frankove (Yaniv), which is seen as their national headquarter.

Basil Takach

St. John the Baptist had been constructed in 1903 and designed by the Hungarian-born architect, Titus de Bobula, who patterned it after the Rusyn Greek Catholic Cathedral of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross in Uzhhorod.

Basil von Burmann

Monk Basil von Burmann, OSB (1891 - 30 October 1959) was a Russian Greek Catholic deacon of German origin.

Bazna

At the 2002 census, 86.6% were Romanian Orthodox, 4% Greek-Catholic, 3.6% Pentecostal, 2.2% Reformed, 1.4% Baptist and 0.9% Lutheran.

Cenei

As of 2002, 82.6% were Romanian and Serbian Orthodox, 13.2% Roman Catholic, 1.5% Pentecostal, 0.8% Baptist and 0.5% each Reformed and Greek-Catholic.

Chiochiș

At the 2002 census, 68.7% were Romanian Orthodox, 22.1% Reformed, 4% Pentecostal, 2% Baptist and 1.8% Greek-Catholic.

Church of St. Onuphrius, Lviv

The Basilian monastery and Greek Catholic church of St. Onuphrius in Lviv, Ukraine is located north of the Old Town, at the base of the Castle Hill.

Corneliu Coposu

Cornel Coposu was born in Bobota, Sălaj County (in Transylvania, part of Austria-Hungary at the time) to the Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Valentin Coposu (17 November 1886 - 28 July 1941) and his wife Aurelia Coposu (née Anceanu, herself the daughter of Romanian Greek-Catholic archpriest Iuliu Anceanu).

Crasna, Sălaj

53.1% were Reformed, 30% Romanian Orthodox, 9.4% Baptist, 2.1% each Seventh-day Adventist and Greek-Catholic and 1.7% Roman Catholic.

Đura Džudžar

Đura Džudžar was born in Đurđevo, Serbia and ordained on September 7, 1980 in the Greek-Catholic diocese of Križevci.

Ghattas

Ignatius Ghattas (1920—1992), bishop of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

Greek-Catholic Church in Bocşa

The Greek-Catholic Church in Bocșa is a church in Bocșa, Sălaj, Romania.

Ibănești, Mureș

90.3% were Romanian Orthodox, 5.8% Greek-Catholic, 2.3% Seventh-day Adventist, 0.7% Pentecostal and 0.4% Baptist.

January Uprising

It is of interest to note that it persisted in Samogitia and Podlaskie, where the Greek-Catholic population, outraged and persecuted for their religious convictions, clung longest to the revolutionary banner.

Kričke, Šibenik-Knin County

In village there are 3 churches: Roman Catholic Church of Queen of Peace, Greek Catholic Church and Orthodox church which is oldest one.

Meletie Covaci

Born in Macedonia, he was a priest of the Greek-Catholic Church in Diosig when, in 1748, Pope Benedict XIV named him auxiliary bishop of the Latin Rite Oradea Diocese, in charge of its Romanian Greek-Catholic parishes.

Nicholas Ilkov

Father Nicholas Ilkov (Polish: Mikołaj Ilków, Ukrainian: Mikola Іlkіv, born on 10 December 1890 - died in 1940 or 1941, Katyn, Poland) was a Ukrainian Greek Catholic priest.

Pavel Bliznetsov

Father Pavel Bliznetsov (born on 26 September 1913, Tambov, Russian Empire - died on 24 September 1989, Gundelfingen, Germany) was a Russian Greek-Catholic priest.

Péter Fülöp Kocsis

On June 30, 2008 he was consecrated bishop of Hajdúdorog Solid Cross, being co-consecrator the Greek Catholic Archbishop of Presov, Ján Babjak and Greek Catholic bishop Milan Šašik of Mukachevo.

Sergei Stasevych

Father Sergei Stasevych (Belorussian: Siarhei Stasevіch, born in 1978, Ivatsevichy, Brest Region) is a Belarusian Greek Catholic priest.

Szilárd Keresztes

Szilárd Keresztes (born on July 19, 1932 in Nyíracsád, Hungary) is the retired bishop of the Hungarian Greek Catholic diocese of Hajdúdorog and apostolic governor of Miskolc by 20 years, and retired since 2008.

Ukraine prison ministry

The Patriarchal Curia of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church is an organ of Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Major Archbishop of Kyiv and Halych, which coordinates and promotes the common activity of the UGCC in Ukraine to make influence on society in different spheres: education, policy, culture, etc.

Vancea

Ioan Vancea (1820–1892), Austro-Hungarian Greek-Catholic bishop

Virgil Bercea

Supported by his uncle Archbishop Alexandru Todea, the clandestine leader of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church under the Communist Romania, he secretly studied theology, and on 9 December 1982 he was secretly ordained Priest.