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Church of England diocesan boards of education
A diocesan board of education (DBE) is the statutory Church of England body in each diocese responsible for promoting church education, required by the 2021 Measure.
Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee)
The Church of God is a Pentecostal holiness denomination founded in 1886 at Barney Creek, Tennessee, and headquartered in Cleveland, reporting more than 8.6 million members in about 191 nations.
Church of God in Christ
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal denomination founded in 1897 by Charles Harrison Mason, with headquarters in Memphis, Tennessee, and millions of members.
Church of Hawaii
The Church of Hawaii, formally the Reformed Catholic Church of Hawaiʻi, is the Anglican church founded in 1862 by King Kamehameha IV and Queen Emma.
Church of Iceland
The Church of Iceland, also known as Þjóðkirkjan, is the Evangelical Lutheran national church of Iceland, tracing its foundation to 1000 and Lutheran since the 1550 Reformation.
Church of Ireland
The Church of Ireland (Eaglais na hÉireann) is an all-island Anglican church with about 345,000 members, disestablished in 1871 and governed by a General Synod.
Church of Norway
The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke) is the evangelical-Lutheran folk church of Norway, a self-governing legal entity since 2017 with about 61 percent of Norwegians as members.
Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion
The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion, also known as St. Mary of Zion, is an Ethiopian Orthodox church in Aksum, regarded as Ethiopia's holiest site.
Church of Scientology
The Church of Scientology is a religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in Los Angeles in 1954, teaching Dianetics and Scientology through auditing with the E-meter.
Church of Scotland
The Church of Scotland, known as the Kirk, is the national Calvinist Presbyterian church of Scotland, dating to the 1560 Reformation and governed by ministers and elders rather than bishops.
Church of South India
The Church of South India (CSI) is a united Protestant church inaugurated in 1947 in Chennai, uniting Anglican, Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Methodist denominations in South India.
Church of Sweden
The Church of Sweden (Svenska kyrkan) is an evangelical-Lutheran folk church with about 5.4 million members, separated from the state in 2000 but still managing burial grounds for all citizens.
Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye
Church of the Ascension, Kolomenskoye (Церковь Вознесения в Коломенском): 1532 stone tent-roofed Orthodox church built by Vasili III for Ivan IV's birth; UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1994, criterion (ii).
Church of the Brethren
The Church of the Brethren is an American Christian denomination founded in 1708 at Schwarzenau, Germany, known for believer's baptism by trine immersion and its Historic Peace Church status.
Church of the East (ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ)
The Church of the East (ܥܕܬܐ ܕܡܕܢܚܐ) is the ancient Syriac-speaking church of Sasanian Persia that declared independence from the Western Church in 424.
Church of the East in Central Asia
The Church of the East in Central Asia, an East Syriac network, established sees at Merv and Herat by 424 and influenced the early Mongol Empire by 1200.
Church of the East in China (Jingjiao)
The Church of the East in China, known as Jingjiao (景教), was the Tang-dynasty branch of the Church of the East, arriving from Persia in 635.
Church of the Holy Apostles
The Church of the Holy Apostles in Constantinople was a major Byzantine church founded by Constantine I and used for centuries as the burial church of the Byzantine emperors.
Church of the Nativity
The Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem is a basilica built over the cave venerated as the birthplace of Jesus, the oldest Christian church in daily use.
Church of the Nazarene
The Church of the Nazarene, formerly the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene, is a Protestant Wesleyan-Holiness denomination organized in 1908, known for its doctrine of entire sanctification.
Church of the SubGenius
The Church of the SubGenius is a satirical mail-order religion founded in Dallas around 1980 by Ivan Stang, centered on J.R. "Bob" Dobbs and Slack.
Church planting
Church planting is the process of starting a new local congregation, often with help from a mother church, that eventually becomes set apart from it.
Church service
A church service is a scheduled gathering of Christians for worship, typically on Sunday, combining scripture readings, prayer, preaching, song, and, in many traditions, the Eucharist.
Church Statute of Prince Vladimir
The Church Statute of Prince Vladimir (Устав князя Владимира) is a legal act attributed to Prince Vladimir of Kiev that granted the Church the tithe and divided judicial authority.
Church Statute of Prince Yaroslav
The Church Statute of Prince Yaroslav (Устав князя Ярослава) is an 11th-century legal code of Kievan Rus' assigning family and marriage cases to church courts.
Church tax
Church tax (Kirchensteuer), a levy on members of recognized religions collected with income tax in Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, and Swiss cantons; Germany charges 8-9% of income tax, yields billions annually, and opt-out requires deregistering from the church.
Church's Texas Chicken
Church's Texas Chicken, also known as Church's Chicken or Texas Chicken, is an American fried chicken chain founded in San Antonio, Texas, in 1952, with more than 1,400 restaurants worldwide.
Churcher's College
Churcher's College is a selective co-educational independent day school in Petersfield, Hampshire, founded in 1722 by Richard Churcher's bequest, opened 1730, co-ed since 1988, boarding ended 1998, ISI-inspected, ages 2-19.
Churches of Christ
Churches of Christ are autonomous congregations, concentrated in the United States, tracing to the Stone-Campbell restoration movement and known for a cappella worship and believer's baptism by immersion.
Churches of Peace in Jawor and Świdnica
Churches of Peace (Kościoły Pokoju, Friedenskirchen) in Jawor and Świdnica, Poland: two mid-17th-century Lutheran timber-framed churches built under Habsburg restrictions after the Peace of Westphalia; UNESCO World Heritage since 2001.