• John Church (1780 – c. 1835) was an Independent minister who was most famous for his involvement in the homosexual scandal of the Vere Street Coterie....
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    Church of Scotland congregation is led by its minister and elders. Both of these terms are also used in other Christian denominations: see Minister (Christianity)...
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    John Cotton (4 December 1585 – 23 December 1652) was a clergyman in England and the American colonies, and was considered the preeminent minister and...
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  • John Duncanson (ca. 1530–1601) was a Scottish minister, one of the Roman Catholic clergymen who willingly converted to the Protestant doctrines at the...
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    John Flynn OBE (25 November 1880 – 5 May 1951) was an Australian Presbyterian minister who founded the Australian Inland Mission (AIM) which later separated...
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    Barrowe, and John Greenwood. In the United Kingdom, the Puritan Reformation of the Church of England laid the foundation for these churches. In England...
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    In Christianity, a minister is a person authorised by a church or other religious organization to perform functions such as teaching of beliefs; leading...
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    Sir John Major KG, CH (born 29 March 1943) is a British former politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative...
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    later called Beverly, about 1664, and was ordained as the first minister of the parish church there on September 20, 1667, when the congregation formally...
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  • John Hall (ca. 1559 – August 1627) was the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, meeting in Burntisland in 1601. He was nominated...
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  • Responsibility for conduct of church services is reserved to an ordained minister or pastor known as a teaching elder, or a minister of the word and sacrament...
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    19th century, John Church (minister) was considered to be the first minister to openly perform same sex marriages in his English church. In 1946, Archbishop...
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    informal name for the Church of Scotland used in the media and by the church itself. The Church of Scotland was principally shaped by John Knox, in the Reformation...
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  • Moderator; Armstrong succeeded Gordon Dane, minister of the founding church in Crossgar. The Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster began on 17 March 1951 (St Patrick's...
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  • John Mayo (died 1676) was a Puritan minister in pre-revolutionary Boston, Massachusetts. He was the first minister of Old North Church, also known as Second...
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    Church (Disciples of Christ) - 2006, Indianapolis: The Office of The General Minister and President Williams, D. Newell (2008). The Christian Church (Disciples...
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    John Abernethy (19 October 1680 – 1 December 1740) was an Irish Presbyterian minister and church leader. He was born at Coleraine, County Londonderry,...
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  • John Ker (1819–1886) was a Scottish ecclesiastical writer and minister in the United Presbyterian Church. Ker was born in Tweedmuir 1819. He was educated...
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    John Murray (December 10, 1741 – September 3, 1815) was one of the founders of the Universalist denomination in the United States, a pioneer minister...
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    Melbourne until 1858 and then in Sydney. He left the Church of Scotland and for a while ministered in John Dunmore Lang's schismatic sect, eventually ending...
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    John Roxburgh (1806–1880) was a Scottish minister of the Church of Scotland and later of the Free Church of Scotland. He served as the latter denomination's...
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  • John Abel (1770–1819) of Carmarthenshire was a Welsh Independent minister and schoolmaster. He was born in Llanybri. Abel attended Carmarthen College...
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  • John Currie (c.1670–1720) was a Church of Scotland minister who served as Moderator of the General Assembly in 1709. He was born in Ochiltree, in Ayrshire...
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  • Executive Minister of Local Church Ministries is vacant.[when?] Wider Church Ministries (WCM) is responsible for partner relations* (relations with churches around...
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  • John Bonar (1721–1761) was a Church of Scotland minister. John Bonar was born at Clackmannan on 4 November 1721; his father, also called Rev John Bonar...
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  • Methodism (redirect from Methodist minister)
    have fewer ministers than churches, and the majority of services are led by lay local preachers, or by supernumerary ministers (ministers who have retired...
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  • 1,508 without a church edifice. There was no organization reporting a parsonage. The number of ministers identified with the church was 30.: 46–47  The...
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    John Winston Howard OM AC SSI (born 26 July 1939) is an Australian former politician who served as the 25th prime minister of Australia from 1996 to 2007...
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    John White CH (1867–1951) was a minister of the Church of Scotland. He served as Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1925 and...
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    John Smyth (c. 1554 – c. 28 August 1612) was an English Anglican, Baptist, then Mennonite minister and a defender of the principle of religious liberty...
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