Word: anglican
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...Mount of Olives. The next year the spiritual leaders of Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy withdrew the mutual anathemas that their predecessors had hurled at each other a full millennium before. Later Paul established an international commission of Roman Catholic theologians to discuss differences of creed with Anglican colleagues, and approved a similar commission with Lutherans in the U.S. Both groups achieved a remarkable consensus on such issues as the nature of the ministry and the presence of Jesus Christ in the Eucharist-key doctrines that divided Christianity in Reformation days. The two Protestant groups went...
...missions in rural Rhodesia have closed since 1972. Others survive only as caretaker operations. One undaunted exception is St. Augustine's, a boarding school at Penha-longa, only 20 miles from Elim in an area where the guerrillas now operate with impunity. St. Augustine's, run by Anglican friars of the Community of the Resurrection, was founded in 1891, and is one of the oldest church missions in Rhodesia. In 1939, over white opposition, it established the colony's first secondary school for Africans, and boasts 1,150 students in primary and secondary grades. A number...
Prince Charles, when the Vatican refused a church wedding to Anglican Prince Michael of Kent and his Catholic bride, Baroness Marie-Christine von Reibnitz: "It seems to be worse than folly that Christians are still arguing about doctrinal matters which can only bring needless distress to a number of people...
...conference, with headquarters in Nairobi, Kenya, is the leading ecumenical organization in Africa. It brings together 116 churches from the Orthodox, Anglican, Protestant and Independent traditions, and is spread across 34 African countries...
...Sithole, Bishop Abel Muzorewa and Chief Jeremiah Chirau, joined the top echelon of government, the first blacks to do so in the breakaway colony's history. The three blacks took oaths of loyalty to "Rhodesia" (rather than to the present constitution) and were sworn in by a black Anglican bishop, the Right Rev. Patrick Murindagomo, rather than by white President John Wrathall. Said the bishop: "It was a happy occasion, like a wedding...