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Religion/Belief Notes The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: 265.0 United States: Non-Trinitarian Christianity: Includes everything from investments, operating assets (ecclesiastical buildings) and Real estate, mostly from USA. [1] Catholic Church in Germany: 47.24 to 265.62 Germany: Catholicism
Edir Macedo (born February 18, 1945) is a Brazilian evangelical bishop, writer, billionaire businessman, [2] [3] and the founder of the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG). [ 4 ] [ 5 ] He is the owner and chairman of the third-largest television network in Brazil, Record , along with Grupo Record since 1989, which he founded after he ...
Bishops in the United States by denomination (8 C) C. Catholic bishops (13 C) Bishops of the Church of the East (17 C) E. Eastern Orthodox bishops (12 C) O.
(Malachi 3:10). This also means that tithes must not be paid to a charity for the needy instead of the Church, because their primary purpose is to maintain the house of God. "The responsibility rests with the church authorities to decide whether after the needs of God's House have been met to use the remainder in aid of the poor." [65]
The Church of the Living God, the Pillar and Ground of the Truth Mary Magdalena Street Lewis Tate ("Mother Tate") (January 3, 1871 – December 28, 1930) was an African American evangelist. She was the first American woman to serve as a Bishop in a nationally recognized denomination. [ 4 ]
At the same time, Bishop Stephen Alencastre, Apostolic Vicar of the Sandwich Islands, was the ordinary of what is now the Diocese of Honolulu. An ordinary (from Latin ordinarius ) is an officer of a church or civic authority who by reason of office has ordinary power to execute laws.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church, quoting the Second Vatican Council's document Lumen gentium, states: "The pope, Bishop of Rome and Peter's successor, 'is the perpetual and visible source and foundation of the unity both of the bishops and of the whole company of the faithful.'" [32] Communion with the bishop of Rome has become such a ...
To the bishops and house churches to which he writes, he offers strategies on how to pressure house churches who do not recognize the bishop into compliance. Other contemporary Christian writers do not describe monarchial bishops, either continuing to equate them with the presbyters or speaking of episkopoi (bishops, plural) in a city.