Contents

1-9999 Christian Denominations

1-9.5 Church unity. Ecumenical movement. Interdenominational cooperation

100-189 Eastern churches. Oriental churches

100-107 General

120-129 Armenian Church

130-139 Coptic Church

140-149 Ethiopic or Abyssinian Church

150-159 Nestorian, Chaldean, or East Syrian Church

Church of the East

The Church of the East tāʾ d-Maḏnḥāʾ), also known as the Nestorian Church, is a Christian church, part of the Syriac tradition of Eastern Christianity. Originally the church of the Persian Sassanid Empire, it quickly spread widely through Asia...

160-169 St. Thomas Christians. Malabar Christians. Mar Thoma Syrian Church

170-179 Syrian or Jacobite Church

180-189 Maronite Church

Maronite Church

The Syriac Maronite Church of Antioch is an Eastern Catholic Church in full communion with the Holy See of Rome . It traces its heritage back to the community founded by Maron, a 4th-century Syriac monk venerated as a saint. The first Maronite Patriarch, John Maron, was elected in the late 7th...

200-756 Orthodox Eastern Church

200-395 General

400-756 Divisions of the church

400-440 Patriarchates of the East. Melchites

450-450.93 Church of Cyprus

460-605 Russian Church

610-620 Church of Greece

Church of Greece

The Church of Greece , part of the wider Greek Orthodox Church, is one of the autocephalous churches which make up the communion of Orthodox Christianity...

630-639 Orthodox Church in Austria and Hungary

650-659 Bulgarian Church

660-669 Georgian Church

670-679 Montenegrin Church

Montenegrin Orthodox Church

The Montenegrin Orthodox Church is an Orthodox Christian organization acting in Montenegro and Montenegrin emigration circles - e.g. the village of Lovćenac and the Montenegrin emigration colony in Argentina...

690-699 Romanian Church

Romanian Orthodox Church

The Romanian Orthodox Church is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church. It is in full communion with other Eastern Orthodox churches, and is ranked seventh in order of precedence. The Primate of the church has the title of Patriarch...

710-719 Serbian Church. Yugoslav Church

720-729 Orthodox Eastern Church, Macedonian

729.5 Orthodox Eastern Church, Ukrainian

729.9-755 Orthodox Church in other regions or countries

800-4795 Catholic Church

800-839 Periodicals. Societies, councils, congresses, etc.

840 Museums. Exhibitions

841 Dictionaries. Encyclopedias

845 Directories. Yearbooks

847 Atlases

850-875 Documents

880-891 General collected works

895-939 Study and teaching

940-1745 History. Including lives of popes

1746-1755 Theology. Doctrine. Dogmatics

1756 Sermons

1760-1779.5 Controversial works

1781-1788 Catholic Church and other churches

1790-1793 Catholic Church and the state

1800-1920 Government and organization

1958-1968 Creeds and catechisms

1969 Forms of worship. Catholic practice

1970-2175 Liturgy

Catholic liturgy

The Catholic Church is fundamentally liturgical and sacramental in its public life of worship.-Liturgical principles:As explained in greater detail in the Catechism of the Catholic Church and its shorter Compendium, the liturgy is something that "the whole Christ", Head and Body, celebrates —...

 and ritual

2050-2175 Prayers and devotions

2177-2198 Meditations. Devotional readings. Spiritual exercises, etc.

2200-2292 Sacraments

2295-2310 Sacramentals

2312 Images

2315-2324 Relics. Shrines. Pilgrimages. Processions

2325-2333 Saints. Hagiology

2347-2377 Practical religion. Christian life

2380-2386 Religious life. Religious state

2400-4563 Monasticism. Religious orders

Roman Catholic religious order

Catholic religious orders are, historically, a category of Catholic religious institutes.Subcategories are canons regular ; monastics ; mendicants Catholic religious orders are, historically, a category of Catholic religious institutes.Subcategories are canons regular (canons and canonesses regular...

2890-4192 Religious orders of men

4200-4563 Religious orders of women

4600-4644 Churches, cathedrals, abbeys (as parish churches), etc.

4650-4705 Biography and portraits

4650-4698 Collective

4654-4662 Saints and martyrs

4700-4705 Individual

4700 Saints

4710.1-4715.95 Eastern churches in communion with Rome. Catholics of the Oriental rites. Uniats

4716.4-4795 Dissenting sects other than Protestant

4718.5-4735 Jansenists

4737 French schisms of the 19th century

4740 German Catholics

4751-4793 Old Catholics

4793.5-4794.25 Independent Catholic Churches

4795 Other

4800-9999 Protestantism

Protestantism

Protestantism is one of the three major groupings within Christianity. It is a movement that began in Germany in the early 16th century as a reaction against medieval Roman Catholic doctrines and practices, especially in regards to salvation, justification, and ecclesiology.The doctrines of the...

4800-4861 General

4872-4924 Pre-Reformation

4872-4893 Waldenses and Albigenses

4900-4906 Lollards. Wycliffites

4913-4924 Hussites

4920-4924 Bohemian Brethren

4929-4951 Post-Reformation

4929-4946 Anabaptists

4950-4951 Plain People

5001-5009 Anglican Communion (General)

5011-5207 Church of England

Church of England

The Church of England is the officially established Christian church in England and the Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion. The church considers itself within the tradition of Western Christianity and dates its formal establishment principally to the mission to England by St...

5011-5050 General

5051-5110 History. Local divisions

5115-5126 Special parties and movements

5127-5129.8 Church of England and other churches

5130-5132 General

5133 Sermons. Tracts. Addresses. Essays

5135-5136 Controversial works

5137-5139 Creeds and catechisms, etc.

5140.5-5147 Liturgy and ritual

5148-5149 Sacraments

5150-5182.5 Government. Organization. Discipline

5183-5187 Religious communities. Conventual life. Religious societies

5194-5195 Cathedrals, churches, etc. in England and Wales

5197-5199 Biography

5200-5207 Dissent and nonconformity

5210-5395 Episcopal Church in Scotland

5410-5595 Church of Ireland

5596-5598 Church in Wales

5600-5740 Church of England outside of Great Britain

5601-5620 Anglican Church of Canada

5800-5995 Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America

5996-6030 Protestant Episcopal Church outside the United States

6051-6093 Reformed Episcopal Church

6101-9999 Other Protestant denominations (Alphabetical; only larger denominations listed. The subarrangement is essentially the same for each sect, the primary features being indicated by way of example under Baptists)

6101-6193 Adventists. “Millerites”

6195-6197 Arminians. Remonstrants

6201-6495 Baptists

6201-6227 General

6231-6328 History. Local divisions

6329 Baptists and other churches

6330-6331.2 Doctrine

6333 Sermons. Tracts

6334 Controversial works

6335-6336 Creeds. Catechisms

6337 Service. Ritual. Liturgy

6338-6339 Sacraments

6340-6346.3 Government. Discipline

6349-6470 Individual branches

6480-6490 Individual Baptist churches

6493-6495 Biography

6551-6593 Catholic Apostolic Church. Irvingites

6651-6693 Christadelphians. Brothers of Christ

6751-6793 Christian Church

6801-6843 Christian Reformed Church

6901-6997 Christian Science

Christian Science

Christian Science is a system of thought and practice derived from the writings of Mary Baker Eddy and the Bible. It is practiced by members of The First Church of Christ, Scientist as well as some others who are nonmembers. Its central texts are the Bible and the Christian Science textbook,...

7003 Christian Union

7020-7060 Church of God

7079-7097 Churches of God

7101-7260 Congregationalism

7301-7343 Disciples of Christ. Campbellites

7401-7430 Dowieism. Christian Catholic Church

7451-7493 Evangelical and Reformed Church

7556 Evangelical United Brethren Church

7580-7583 Free Congregations (Germany). Freie Gemeinden

7601-7795 Friends. Society of Friends. Quakers

7801-7843 German Baptist Brethren. Church of the Brethren. Dunkards

7850-7865 German Evangelical Protestant Church of North America. Evangelical Protestant Church of North America

7901-7943 German Evangelical Synod of North America

7990.H6-.H69 Holiness churches

8001-8080 Lutheran churches

8101-8144 Mennonites

8201-8495 Methodism

8525-8528 Millennial Dawnists. Jehovah’s Witnesses

8551-8593 Moravian Church. United Brethren. Unitas Fratrum. Herrnhuters

8601-8695 Mormons. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

8701-8749 New Jerusalem Church. New Church. Swedenborgianism

8762-8785 Pentecostal churches

8799-8809 Plymouth Brethren. Darbyites

8901-9225 Presbyterianism. Calvinistic Methodism

9301-9359 Puritanism

9401-9640 Reformed or Calvinistic Churches

9675 River Brethren. Brethren in Christ

9701-9743 Salvation Army

9751-9793 Shakers. United Society of Believers. Millennial Church

9801-9869 Unitarianism

Unitarianism

Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being....

9875-9877.1 United Brethren in Christ. Church of the United Brethren in Christ

9881-9882.95 United Church of Canada

9884-9886 United Church of Christ

9887 United Evangelical Church

9889 United Missionary Church

9901-9969 Universalism. Universalists

9975 Volunteers of America

9980 Walloon Church

9998 Other beliefs and movements akin to Christianity

9999 Independent churches, parishes, societies, etc.

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