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Alexey Dushkin

This station on the Ring Line, 40 meters deep, was Moscow's first employment of stained glass, a technology previously associated with Roman Catholic church and thus deemed unacceptable in Soviet architecture.

Almery

In Roman Catholic usage, when commonly called an ambry, it is traditionally located in the sanctuary (as in, the altar area) of a church or in the Baptistery, and is used for the storage of the oils used in sacraments: Oil of catechumens (indicated by the Latin letters O.C.), Oil of the Sick (O.I.), and Sacred Chrism (S.C.).

Antonio Saca

Born in Usulután, Saca is patrilineal descended from Palestinian (Catholic Christian) immigrants who arrived in El Salvador in the early 20th century from the West Bank town of Bethlehem.

Arriach

Therefore the Four Evangelists parish church, erected in 1903, is the largest Protestant church building in mainly Catholic Carinthia.

Babimost

In 1871 the town had 2272 inhabitants, of whom 1042 were Catholics (mostly Poles), 1070 were Evangelical Lutherans (mostly Germans) and 160 Jewish.

Begijnhof, Amsterdam

After the Alteration (Protestant takeover) of 1578, when Amsterdam came under Calvinist rule, the Begijnhof was the only Roman Catholic institution to be allowed to remain in existence.

Bibel TV

16 Christian organizations were a part of the founding of Bibel TV: among them are a subsidiary of the television arm of the Evangelical Church in Germany, a subsidiary of the Roman Catholic Church in Germany, the association of Free churches (including Baptist, Methodist, Mennonite, Pentecostal, Salvation Army), the German Billy Graham Association, Campus Crusade for Christ in Germany and the German Bible Society, called Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft.

Carlos María de la Torre

Carlos María Javier de la Torre y Nieto (November 14, 1873, Quito, Ecuador – July 31, 1968, Quito, Ecuador) was an Ecuadorian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.

Christian Brothers College, Burwood

Christian Brothers College, Burwood (CBC Burwood) was a Catholic high school located in Burwood, Sydney Australia.

City of Boerne v. Flores

The basis for dispute arose when the Catholic Archbishop of San Antonio, Patrick Flores, applied for a building permit to enlarge his 1923 mission-style St. Peter's Church in Boerne, Texas.

Cowasji Jehangir Readymoney

Readymoney built colleges, hospitals, insane asylums; founded a refuge for people of "respectability" who found themselves destitute or friendless in Bombay; erected several drinking fountains of artistic merit; gave donations to the Catholic and the Presbyterian missions in India.

Culture of Azerbaijan

The Roman Catholic Church in Azerbaijan is part of the worldwide Roman Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and curia in Rome.

Diocese of Gibraltar

The Diocese of Gibraltar is a jurisdiction within both the Anglican and Roman Catholic Church.

Dominus vobiscum

Dominus vobiscum, a Latin phrase meaning "The Lord be with you", is an ancient salutation and blessing traditionally used by the clergy in the Roman Catholic Mass, as well as in the liturgies of other Western Christian denominations.

Doohoma

There are two strong community focal points in Doohoma, namely the local Roman Catholic church (Pope Pius X) and the Doohoma National School.

Education in Panama

As of 2004, more than 92,500 Panamanian students attended the University of Panama, the Technological University of Panama, West Coast University – Panama and the University of Santa Maria La Antigua, a private Catholic institution.

Esteban Tápis

In addition to his authority over the missions, he also served as the local Rural Dean of the Diocese of Sonora which covered that region in that period, responsible for Church matters of any Catholic there.

Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio

Mother Eugenia Elisabetta Ravasio (San Gervasio d’Adda, 4 September 1907 – 10 August 1990) was an Italian nun, visionary and mystic, from the Roman Catholic Church.

Farmington, Missouri

Many of these religious residents identify as Christians—38.08% are Protestants, 7.65% are Roman Catholics, 5.03% identify with another Christian faith, 0.43% are Mormons, 0.03% belong to an Eastern religion, and 0.01% are Jewish.

Francesco degli Angeli

He made converts, among them the brother of the King and lords of the court, but did not succeed bringing about the reunion of the Abyssinian Church with the Roman Catholic Church, because of opposition from Ethiopian monks.

Galoli language

Although it is not spoken by as many people as other national languages, it was adopted by the Roman Catholic Church in the district of Manatuto and thus has become fixed in grammars and dictionaries.

Gene Edwards

Besides his own books on devotional living and Christian community, Edwards also edited and republished out-of-print works by a selection of quietist Catholic mystics including Madame Guyon, François Fénelon, Miguel de Molinos, as well as Brother Lawrence.

German settlements in the Riverina

The Albury region had long been a settlement area for Catholic Germans, particularly farmers and wine growers from the Rhineland, who had begun to melt in with the Anglo-Celtic population.

Giulio Bevilacqua

Giulio Bevilacqua, Orat (November 14, 1881 – May 6, 1965) was an Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as an auxiliary bishop of Brescia from 1965 until his death, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1965.

Goa Inquisition

In 1599 under Aleixo de Menezes, the Synod of Diamper forcefully converted the East Syriac Saint Thomas Christians (also known as Syrian Christians or Nasranis) of Kerala to the Roman Catholic Church.

Holy Cross Church, Pavoor

The Holy Cross Church, Pavoor, Kasaragod district, Kerala is a Roman Catholic Church (Latin Rite) and the only place in the world where a range of Catholic Church Services are conducted in Tulu.

Joseph Chhmar Salas

Joseph Chhmar Salas (in Khmer យ៉ូសែប ធ្មារ សាឡាស់; 21 October 1937 – September 1977) was a bishop of the Roman Catholic Apostolic Vicariate of Phnom Penh in Cambodia between 1975 and 1977.

Julio Parise Loro

Loro was born in Cologna Veneta, Italy and was ordained a priest on 15 August 1944 from the Roman Catholic religious order of the Institute of Consecrated Life.

Leelanau Township, Michigan

St. Wenceslaus Church, named for Wenceslas I, Duke of Bohemia, a Roman Catholic Church founded nearby by immigrants from Bohemia who worked at the Leland Lake Superior Iron Foundry and at the Gills Pier sawmill also remains.

Luca Brandolini

Luca Brandolini, CM (born 25 December 1933) is an Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church who currently serves as Bishop of Sora-Aquino-Pontecorvo.

Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano

Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano (July 9, 1828, Bene Vagienna, Italy – December 7, 1913, Rome, Italy) was a cardinal of the Catholic Church in the late nineteenth century.

Marie de Sales Chappuis

Venerable Marie de Sales Chappuis, was born Marie-Thérèse Chappuis (16 June 1793 in Soyhières, today in the Canton of Jura in Switzerland and at that time in the Département du Mont-Terrible in France – 6 October 1875 in Troyes, Aube, France) was a Roman Catholic nun and a spiritual leader in the Order of the Visitation of Holy Mary.

Martin Rhonheimer

Martin Rhonheimer (born 1950 in Zurich, Switzerland) is a Swiss academic philosopher and a priest of the Catholic personal prelature Opus Dei.

Murder of Alfred Kunz

Father Alfred Joseph Kunz, (April 15, 1931 – March 4, 1998), was a Catholic priest who was found with his throat slit in his Roman Catholic church in Dane, Wisconsin.

Murray Chatlain

Murray Chatlain (born January 19, 1963) is a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, who (as of 2013) serves as Archbishop of Keewatin-Le Pas and Apostolic Administrator of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Mackenzie-Fort Smith.

National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima

The National Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima (Filipino: Pambansang Dambana ng Birhen ng Fatima) is a Philippine apostolate of Our Lady of Fatima in Fátima, Portugal which is recognized by the Philippine Roman Catholic Church.

Northern Baptist Theological Seminary

In 2004 NBTS's then-president Charles Moore joined many other Protestant evangelicals in endorsing Roman Catholic film director Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.

Our Lady, Star of the Sea

This aspect of the Virgin has led to Our Lady, Star of the Sea, being named as patroness of the Catholic missions to seafarers, the Apostleship of the Sea, and to many coastal churches being named Stella Maris or Mary, Star of the Sea.

Prebendary

The holder of the post is connected to an Anglican or Roman Catholic cathedral or collegiate church and is a type of canon who has a role in the administration of the cathedral.

Religion in Tonga

According to the last official census in 1996, 41% of the population of Tonga belonged to the Free Wesleyan Church of Tonga, 16% to the Roman Catholic Church, 14% to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons), 12% to the Free Church of Tonga, 17% to other groups.

Saint Elizabeth of the Hill Country Catholic Church

The parish had its beginnings in the 1940s for the few Catholic families and students at Appalachian State University.

Salomão Barbosa Ferraz

Salomão Barbosa Ferraz (18 February 1880 in Jaú, Brazil – 11 May 1969) was a Brazilian priest and Bishop whose career took him through membership of several Christian denominations from the Presbyterian Church through to the Roman Catholic Church.

Sanctuario de San Juan Evangelista

This Old Dagupan Church is a Shrine under a diocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic Church in the Philippines from the Archdiocese of Nueva Segovia.

St. Mary's College, Brockville

Mary's College is a former high school and junior seminary that was operated by the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, a missionary order of the Roman Catholic Church more commonly known as "Redemptorists."

Supreme Bishop

:- Ecclesiastical Governor of the Diocese of Nueva Segovia, (Roman Catholic Church).

Terry Jones' Barbarians

He sees the common view of Rome and "Barbarians" as a result of the Roman Catholic Church popularizing the Roman version of the truth.

The Briefing

Various articles in the second half of 2006 and the early part of 2007 have examined liberal theology, Catholicism and Hillsong.

Thomas Betagh

Thomas Betagh (1737 – 16 February 1811) was an Irish Catholic priest, schoolteacher, and professor of languages at Pont-à-Mousson seminary.

Thomas Joseph Shahan

Thomas Joseph Shahan (September 11, 1857 – March 9, 1932) was an American Roman Catholic theologian and educator, born at Manchester, New Hampshire, educated at Collège de Montréal (1872) at the Pontifical North American College, and at the Propaganda in Rome.

Vicente Liem de la Paz

Vicente Liem de la Paz (Vietnamese: Vinh Sơn Phạm Hiếu Liêm) (1732 – November 7, 1773) was a Tonkinese (present day northern Vietnam) Dominican friar venerated as a saint and martyr by the Roman Catholic Church.


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Alphonse James

Alphonse James Schladweiler (1902-1996), an American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Andrew McDonald

Andrew Joseph McDonald (born 1923), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, Bishop of Little Rock, 1972–2000

Barraquer

Francisco Vidal y Barraquer (1868–1943), Spanish Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church who served as Archbishop of Tarragona from 1919

Berchmans

:John Berchmans (Dutch: Jan Berchmans) (13 March 1599 – 13 August 1621), a Jesuit Scholastic and a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

Branch theory

Although the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission, an organization sponsored by the Anglican Consultative Council and the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, seeks to make ecumenical progress between the Roman Catholic Church and the Anglican Communion, it has made no statement on the topic, and no support for the branch theory has been expressed anywhere outside Anglicanism itself.

Daniel Hart

Daniel Anthony Hart (1927–2008), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Diocese of Christchurch

Roman Catholic Diocese of Christchurch, a geographical area of the Roman Catholic Church, in New Zealand

Diocese of Dunedin

Roman Catholic Diocese of Dunedin, a geographical area of the Roman Catholic Church, in New Zealand

Fourier

Peter Fourier (1565–1640), French saint in the Roman Catholic Church and priest of Mattaincourt

Francis Green

Francis Joseph Green (1906–1995), American prelate of the Roman 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 Leech

George L. Leech (1890–1985), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Goulais and District, Ontario

In Goulais Bay, Ontario, on the grounds of Our Lady of Sorrows Roman Catholic Church built by Frederic Baraga, an Ontario Provincial Plaque explains that he was a pioneer missionary in northwestern Ontario responsible for Jesuit missions from Bruce Mines, Ontario to Thunder Bay, Ontario.

Goupil

René Goupil (1608–1642), French missionary, one of the first North American martyrs of the Roman Catholic Church

Hatton Garden

Ely Place, off Hatton Garden, is home to St Etheldreda's Church – one of the oldest Roman Catholic church in England and one of only two remaining buildings in London dating from the reign of Edward I.

Henry Anstey

Having been received into the Roman Catholic Church in 1842, he was created a Knight of St. Gregory by Pope Pius IX.

Holy orders

The Roman Catholic Church judged Anglican orders invalid when Pope Leo XIII in 1896 wrote in Apostolicae Curae that Anglican orders lack validity because the rite by which priests were ordained was not correctly worded from 1547 to 1553 and from 1558 to the time of Archbishop William Laud, (Archbishop of Canterbury 1633–1645).

James Wall

James S. Wall (born 1964), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Joachim of Fiore

In 2009 Father Raniero Cantalamessa, preacher to the Pontifical Household, gave a lecture to Pope Benedict XVI and the papal household, restating the Roman Catholic Church's view that Gioacchino da Fiore was a heretic.

John Dougherty

John M. Dougherty (born 1932), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

John Regis

John Francis Regis S.J. (1597–1640), French preacher recognized as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church

John Tracy

John Patrick Treacy (1891–1964), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Joseph Barney

Two of his large-scale paintings — altar pieces The Deposition from the Cross (1781) and The Apparition of Our Lord to St Thomas (1784) have been preserved in Wolverhampton, and can be seen today at St John's church and at St Peter & St Paul's Roman Catholic church.

Joseph Lynch

Joseph Patrick Lynch (1872–1954), American prelate of the Roman Catholic Church

Kanakamala

There is a Roman Catholic church in Kanamala, established in 1943 and dedicated to St Anthony of Padua.

Łąki Bratiańskie

During the Kulturkampf, the monastery and the church were closed down; however, they were opened again once the Prussian Empire resumed normal relations with the Roman Catholic Church.

Marchington

The village's Roman Catholic church on Hall road is a small stone building and is part of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham

Mariastein Abbey

The abbey was secularised twice, in 1792, because of the French Revolution, and in 1874, as a result of a conflict between the state and the Roman Catholic Church known as Kulturkampf, after which the monks were obliged to seek refuge first in France, at Delle, and then, when in 1902 they were expelled as a result of legal changes in France, for a short time at Dürrnberg near Hallein in Austria, and finally in Bregenz, also in Austria.

Matrona

Matrona of Barcelona, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church, born in Thessaloniki and venerated in Barcelona

Matthias Knutzen

The author Johannes Moller wrote in his biography of North German writers, Cimbria Literata (printed in 1744), that Knutzen had died in an Italian monastery, but that was probably only an invention made up to discredit both Knutzen and the Roman Catholic church.

Mercati

Giovanni Mercati (17 December 1866 – 23 August 1957) an Italian cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

Natural method

Natural family planning, the family planning methods approved by the Roman Catholic Church

Nigel Patrick

He married the actress Beatrice Campbell at St James' Roman Catholic Church, Spanish Place, Marylebone, London on 12 January 1951.

Penitentiary

Apostolic Penitentiary, a tribunal of mercy, responsible for issues relating to the forgiveness of sins in the Roman Catholic Church

Peter E. Gillquist

A desire for Apostolic Succession led most members of the EOC to join the Antiochian Orthodox Christian Archdiocese of North America in 1987 after first investigating the Episcopal Church, the Roman Catholic Church, the Greek Archdiocese, and the Orthodox Church in America (OCA).

Prince Lerotholi Seeiso

Prince Lerotholi was baptized as David at the Roman Catholic St. Louis Church at Matsieng on 2 June 2007 by the head of the Roman Catholic Church in Lesotho, Archbishop Bernard Mohlalisi.

Pure Heart

The Roman Catholic Church promotes its members to seek it and codified the required knowledge and practices within the Liturgy of the Eucharist – which serves other purposes as well.

Sacerdotalis

Ordinatio Sacerdotalis (Latin for On Ordination to the Priesthood) is a Roman Catholic document discussing the Roman Catholic Church's position requiring the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone

Saint Dalmatius

Dalmatius of Pavia (d. 254 or 304 AD), venerated as a saint by the Roman Catholic Church

Săliştea

In 1701, the Emperor Leopold I decreed Transylvania's Orthodox Church to be one with the Roman Catholic Church.

Sodano

Angelo Sodano (born 1927), Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

St John's Church, Bath

John the Evangelist Roman Catholic Church is located on the South Parade in the south-east section of Bath City Centre – the old Ham District where John Wood the Elder, the Georgian architect, had originally planned his gigantic "Forum".

St Mary's Pro-Cathedral

Whereas up to 1973, those ceremonies were exclusively denominational, the ceremonies for the inaugurations of President Childers in 1973, President Ó Dálaigh in 1974 and President Hillery in 1976, were multidenominational, with representatives of the Roman Catholic, Church of Ireland, Presbyterian, Methodist and the Jewish faith taking part in the ceremony.

Stille Omgang

This miracle was officially recognised by the Roman Catholic Church, and a large pilgrimage chapel, the Heilige Stede ("Holy Site") was built where the house had stood, and the Heiligeweg ("Holy Way") as a pilgrimage route to it.

Veronica Lueken

Lueken reported her first Marian vision in her home on April 7, 1970, when the Virgin Mary informed Lueken that she would appear on the grounds of St. Robert Bellarmine Roman Catholic Church in Bayside on June 18, 1970, and subsequently, on all great feast days of the Catholic Church.

Verulam House, St Albans

The former stable area provided land for the building of an adjacent Roman Catholic church under the patronage of the local MP of that time, Alexander Raphael.

Wyszyński

Stefan Wyszyński, Polish prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, cardinal

Zabarella

Alessandro Sanminiatelli Zabarella (3 August 1840 – 24 November 1910), Italian Cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church

Zăbrani

Among the most important touristic sights of the commune we can mention the rural architectural complex in Zăbrani dating from the 9th century, the Roman Catholic church in the centre of Neudorf village (1771), the crypt of archduchess Marie Anne Hapsburg in Neudorf (1809) with a funeral monument raised in 1841, as well as the memorial museum of Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn, an outstanding personality of German literature.