United Copts are those who, since 1732, have acknowledged the authority of the pope. They are of two rites the Egyptian, and the Ethiopic or Abyssinian-and in Egypt they number 12,000. In 1855 the pope appointed one of their priests vicar apostolic and bishop in partibus. SEE COPTS. Fuente: Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical … Continue reading “United Copts”
United Christians of St. Thomas
United Christians of St. Thomas a body of East Indian Roman Catholics, chiefly found in Travancore, at the southern extremity of India. In 1599 the Synod of Diamper. (Udiamperoor) compelled the ancient Church of St. Thomas Christians to conform to the Church of Rome, conceding to them a modern Syrian rite. In 1653 nearly all … Continue reading “United Christians of St. Thomas”
United Brethren in Christ
United Brethren in Christ the full title of a body of evangelical Christians in this country. I. Origin. In the year 1752, the Rev. Philip William Otterbein (q.v.), a distinguished scholar and missionary in the German Reformed Church, emigrated from Dillenberg, in the Duchy of Nassau, Germany, to America. Not long after his arrival in … Continue reading “United Brethren in Christ”
UNITED BRETHREN
UNITED BRETHREN See MORAVIANS. Fuente: Theological Dictionary
United Armenians
United Armenians a name applied to those Armenian Christians who acknowledge the pope; the orthodox Armenians being called Gregorians. The Armenian rite in the Roman Catholic Church has one patriarch and primate (in Cilicia), four archbishops (at Constantinople, Aleppo, Seleucia or Diarbekir, and Lemberg), besides two in partibus, and sixteen bishops. Their union took place … Continue reading “United Armenians”
United
United * For UNITED, Rom 6:5, RV, see PLANT, C; in Heb 4:2, see MIXED (with), Note Fuente: Vine’s Dictionary of New Testament Words
Unitas Fratrum
Unitas Fratrum (MORAVIAN BRETHREN, or UNITAS FRATRUM). DEFINITION AND DOCTRINAL POSITION “Bohemian Brethren” and “Moravian Brethren” are the current popular designation of the Unitas Fratrum founded in Bohemia in 1457, renewed by Count Zinzendorf in 1722, and still active in our own day. Placing life before creeds, the Moravian Church seeks “to exemplify the living … Continue reading “Unitas Fratrum”
Unitas Fratrom
Unitas Fratrom A religious association formed near Kunwald, Bohemia, 1457, “to foster pure scriptural teaching and apostolic discipline.” The Unitas Fratrom, Church of Brethren, or Unity of Brethren, known at the present time in England and America as the Moravian Church, was established, 1735. In 1734 the first Moravian missionary came to Pennsylvania, and an … Continue reading “Unitas Fratrom”
Unitarians
UNITARIANS Those who confine the glory and attributes of divinity to the Father, and not allowing it to the Son or Holy Spirit. They are the same as the Socinians. See SOCINIANS. Fuente: Theological Dictionary Unitarians A Liberal Protestant sect which holds as it distinctive tenet the belief in a uni-personal instead of a tri-personal … Continue reading “Unitarians”
Unitarianism
Unitarianism belief in the unity of God. In a comprehensive sense it includes, with a part of Christendom, Jews, Mohammedans, Deists, and all who worship God as one. For this use, however, the accepted term is Monotheism. Within the ranks of Christendom the name Unitarian is given to those who reject the dogma of the … Continue reading “Unitarianism”