List of noted children of clergy is a list of notable persons concerned with individuals whose status as a child of a cleric is important, preferably critical, to their fame or significance. ... Ingmar Bergman – noted atheist, son of a Lutheran minister. Crystal Bernard – actress and singer. Daughter of a Baptist televangelist who traveled ...

He was also a member of the Swedish four-estates parliament, elected three times as representative of the clergy in the northern and western parts of Finland. In his first parliamentary session, 1765–1766, he was very successful as a member of the subcommittee that wrote Sweden's famous Constitutional Law of the Freedom of Printing ...

The new dukes replaced the Saxon horse emblem and introduced their Ascanian family colours and emblem added by a bendwise crancelin, symbolising the Saxon ducal crown, as new coat-of-arms of Saxony ().The later rulers of the House of Wettin adopted the Ascanian coat-of-arms.. After the division, the counting of the dukes started anew. Though the first Ascanian duke is …

In Adomnan of Iona's biography of Columba there is an anecdotal story about two priests with a strong attachment to one another "in a carnal way". One was Findchan, described as the founder of the monastery of "Scotic Artchain" in Tiree. The other priest was Aed Dub.. Peter Damian, in the 11th century, wrote a book called the "Book of Gomorrah" about homosexuality among the …

This is a list of religious organizations by faith. As it can be a matter of debate as to whether an organization is in fact religious, organizations only appear on this list where the organization itself claims or has claimed to be a religious organization. ... List of Lutheran dioceses and archdioceses; See List of religious organizations# ...

The Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY; also called Mekane Yesus Church) is a Lutheran denomination in Ethiopia.It is the largest individual member church of the Lutheran World Federation.It is a Lutheran denomination with some Pentecostal influence and one Presbyterian-leaning synod, with a large Pietistic following.. With the encouragement of the …

Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism or Reformed Christianity) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.It emphasises the sovereignty of God and the authority of the Bible.. Calvinists broke from the Roman Catholic …

Oliver Crane (B.A. 1845), Presbyterian clergy, missionary to Turkey, Oriental scholar, writer; Thomas Frederick Davies, Sr. (1853 & 1893), third Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan, 1889–1905; Jonathan Edwards, New England pastor and theologian; Leroy Gilbert, Chaplain of the United States Coast Guard

Abo of Tiflis – Christian activist and the patron saint of the city of Tbilisi, Georgia; Abraham of Bulgaria – martyr and saint of the Russian Orthodox Church; St. Adolphus – martyr who was put to death along with his brother, John, by Abd ar-Rahman II, the Caliph of Córdoba, for apostasy; Jabalah ibn al-Aiham – last ruler of the Ghassanid state in Syria and Jordan in the 7th century ...

Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying with the theology of Martin Luther, a 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Roman Catholic Church launched the Protestant Reformation.The reaction of the government and church authorities to the international spread of his writings, beginning …