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The Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) is an evangelical denomination with Pietist Lutheran roots. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The denomination has 129,015 members in 878 congregations and an average worship attendance of 219,000 people [ 5 ] in the United States and Canada with ministries on five continents.
The Evangelical Catholic Church (ECC), formerly known as the Independent Evangelical Catholic Church in America (IECCA), is an Independent Catholic church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Founded in 1997, [1] [2] it claimed about 1,500 members in three parishes in 2014.
The ECC accepted the Apostles', Nicene (minus the filioque), and Athanasian creeds, as well as all the writings contained within the Book of Concord of 1580. Unlike most American Lutheran churches, the ECC taught the necessity of Apostolic succession and episcopal polity, and rejected the forms of congregational polity practiced by the LCMS and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. [7]
The Ecumenical Catholic Church was founded in Santa Ana, California, [1] in 1987 by Mark Steven Shirilau—a former member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America and the Metropolitan Community Church—and Jeffrey Michael Lau, a former member of the Episcopal Church and the Metropolitan Community Church; [3] [4] the first edition of its canon law was completed and ratified on January 11 ...
The Holy Cross Cathedral, [2] [3] also referred to as the Catholic Cathedral of Honiara, is the cathedral church and seat of the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Honiara (Latin: Archidioecesis Honiaranus). It is located in the city of Honiara, which is on Guadalcanal Island and is the capital of the Solomon Islands, a country in the southwest ...
In 2018, the church claimed to have 85,000 members and had opened 30 campuses in different cities. [13] In November 2018, CBS News listed Life.Church as the third largest megachurch in the United States with about 30,000 weekly visitors. The church claims to reach about 300,000 people online every week. [14]
The Chocorua Island Chapel is a non-denominational chapel located on the island of the same name on Squam Lake in Grafton County, New Hampshire, in the town of Holderness. It is an open-air place of worship, created as an extension of Camp Chocorua, the first summer youth camp in the United States. The open-air chapel was created by the camp's ...
The first Anglican clergymen arrived in 1664, by which time the island had been divided into 7 parishes. The first church was built between 1661 and 1664. This was the church of St Catherine in Spanish Town, constructed on the site of the earlier Spanish Church of the Red Cross, which had been destroyed by the fighting between 1655 and 1660 ...