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The Military Rabbinate is a unit in the Israel Defense Forces that provides religious services for military personnel, Jewish and non-Jewish, and makes decisions on issues of religion and military affairs. The Military Rabbinate is headed by the Chief Military Rabbi, who carries the rank of a Brigadier General.
Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown recalled that he learned much about life, death, poverty, injustice and unemployment as the son of a Church of Scotland minister. [10] The "preacher's kid" phenomenon has been connected with the related phenomenon of "military brats" (children of active-duty military personnel). [11]
Serbian Orthodox archpriest Vukajlo Božović was a guerilla leader in the Kosovo Vilayet.. Throughout history, armed priests or soldier priests have been recorded. Distinguished from military chaplains, who are non-combatants that provided spiritual guidance to service personnel and associated civilians, these priests took up arms and fought in conflicts as combatants.
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To assist Cooke with the military diocese, the pope in 1975 appointed Bishop Joseph T. Ryan from the Archdiocese of Anchorage as a coadjutor bishop. [9] Pope John Paul II in 1979 named a retired military chaplain, Rear Admiral John O'Connor as auxiliary bishop for the military diocese. [10] In 1985, O'Connor became archbishop of New York.
The Roman Catholic Church called for the retention of the policy, but had no plans to withdraw its priests from serving as military chaplains. [35] Sixty-five retired chaplains signed a letter opposing repeal, stating that repeal would make it impossible for chaplains whose faith teaches that same-sex behavior is immoral to minister to military ...
Jane Austen, daughter of an Anglican clergyman Theodor Mommsen, son of a Lutheran minister Albert Schweitzer, Son of a Lutheran-Evangelical pastor Margaret Thatcher, daughter of a Methodist pastor Wright Brothers – sons of a bishop in the Church of the United Brethren in Christ Laurence Olivier, son of a priest of the Church of England Aretha Franklin, daughter of a Baptist minister Martin ...
A Catholic priest has resigned as pastor of a church in a small central Michigan community, the result of weeks of controversy following his publicly expressed regret that a gay author had read a ...