Donne was 43 when he agreed to be ordained in the Protestant church.
The opposition she joined was tiny, mostly confined to a few parishes in the Protestant church, heavily infiltrated by the Stasi and weakened by the systematic exile of its leaders to the West.
Walk by the Latter-day Saints church on the Upper East Side of New York, and you will see only images of Jesus and scenes from the Gospels, even if the Mormon Jesus looks more corn-fed and burly than the gaunt, ascetic one in the Protestant church around the corner.
And as we consider the profound disagreements that exist between the many organized churches within the Christian faith, how long would it be before Americans are fighting over whether the Protestant Church, by way of example, should be the official religion of a state or the nation thereby excluding Catholics, Mormons, Seventh Day Adventists, or any other Christian based faith?
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The Anglican Church is a protestant denomination intimately associated with the American Episcopal Church.
Those against the amendment include a coalition of reformed Jews, some Protestant factions, Sikhs, Quakers, the United Church of Christ, and Unitarians.
The Anglican Communion (including the U.S. Episcopal Church) identifies as both Catholic and Protestant, headed by the Archbishop of Canterbury.
He wrote the controversial Ninety-Five Theses on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences and nailed its pages to the door of Castle Church, an act which many regard as having launched the Protestant Reformation.
Defying her core supporters in the liberal community and the Catholic Church, she endorsed Ramos, an architect of martial law and a Protestant, as the candidate best equipped to restore stability and promote economic recovery.
The prohibition of imagery (Iconoclasm) by the Eastern Church in the eighth and ninth centuries (and, after the Reformation, by Protestant sects) was a reaction against the widespread heresy of "real presence" the belief that the image of God or of Christ had itself an aspect of divinity.
The document urges him to grant King Henry VIII an annulment of his first marriage. (When the pope wouldn't do so, Henry founded the Church of England, which did.) The 1654 deed of abdication of Sweden's Queen Christina, who left her Protestant nation's throne to join the church of Rome, is tied to over 300 round containers, many today empty of wax.
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But overall, the story of the Latin American church has been one of decline in recent years amid a rise of Evangelical Protestant churches imported from the U.S. or home grown.
In February, when George W. Bush decided to express remorse for failing to condemn anti-Catholic intolerance during his speech to the fundamentalist Protestant Bob Jones University, he wrote to O'Connor as the de facto leader of the Catholic church in America.
More controversial is the government "church tax" on those in Catholic or Protestant religions, among others, which is collected to fund churches regardless of attendance.
Many Catholics have cheered the ascension of Francis, especially in Latin America, where his appointment is expected to reinvigorate the church, which has been losing ground recently to Protestant evangelicals.
The church stands where the Catholic Short Strand area meets the Protestant lower Newtownards Road.
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