How many clergy did the denomination that the Thomas Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church belongs to begin with?
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Thomas Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church Thomas Chapel A.M.E. Zion Church is a historic African Methodist Episcopal church located at Black Mountain, Buncombe County, North Carolina. It was built in 1922 by descendents of freed slaves, and is a one-story, frame building with Gothic Revival design influences. It is sheathed in weatherboard and features a tall, pyramidal-roof bell tower.
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African Methodist Episcopal Church The African Methodist Episcopal Church, usually called the A.M.E. Church, is a predominantly African-American Methodist denomination based in the United States. It is the first independent Protestant denomination to be founded by black people . It was founded by the Rt. Rev. Richard Allen in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1816 from several black Methodist congregations in the mid-Atlantic area that wanted independence from white Methodists. Allen was consecrated its first bishop in 1816. It began with eight clergy and five churches, and by 1846 had grown to 176 clergy, 296 churches, and 17,375 members. The 20,000 members in 1856 were located primarily in the North. AME national membership (including probationers and preachers) jumped from 70,000 in 1866 to 207,000 in 1876.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church of Romania The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Romania (Romanian: "Biserica Evanghelică-Luterană din România" ; Hungarian: "Romániai Evangélikus-Lutheránus Egyház" ; German: "Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Rumänien" ) is a Lutheran denomination in Romania. Many active congregations were founded over 450 years ago, and today the Church has 27,540 members. It is primarily a Hungarian-speaking denomination, with one deanery for Slovak-speaking parishes.
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Neil Thomas Ministries Neil Thomas Ministries (NTM) is a non-profit, Christian organization whose doctrine is heavily based on Methodism, a branch of Protestant Christianity. In 1971, Neil Thomas and Tom Griffiths founded the organization's college in Canberra, Australia. As of 2011, NTM operates missions in India, Pakistan and Tibet, together with other nations in Africa and Oceania including New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and Vanuatu, where the ministry has been highly influential. In Vanuatu the ministry serves its community through three Bible Colleges in English and Bislama, 130 churches, two junior secondary schools and several medical clinics. The founder of the denomination, Paster Neil Thomas, died on 11 December 2014 in Melbourne, Australia.
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Anglican ministry The Anglican ministry is both the leadership and agency of Christian service in the Anglican Communion. "Ministry" commonly refers to the office of ordained clergy: the "threefold order" of bishops, priests and deacons. More accurately, Anglican ministry includes many laypeople who devote themselves to the ministry of the church. Ultimately, all baptized members of the church are considered to partake in the ministry of the Body of Christ. "...[I]t might be useful if Anglicans dropped the word "minister" when referring to the clergy...In our tradition, ordained persons are either bishops, priests, or deacons, and should be referred to as such."
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Ministerium A ministerium is an association of clergy from various religious groups who come together to accomplish a specific purpose, often to build collegiality and to meet or address socioeconomic needs in the community. The represented churches, synagogues, and other congregations are often connected geographically, such as in a small town or group of small towns.
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Wesleyan Holiness Church The Wesleyan Holiness Church is a Christian denomination which describes itself as evangelical protestant and "has its roots in John Wesley's Methodism". It sits within the Holiness movement which emerged from Methodism during the nineteenth century.
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Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church The Ethiopian Zion Coptic Church is an offshoot of the Rastafari movement that flourished in the 1970s in Jamaica and was incorporated in Florida in 1975. Members of the movement say it is based on the teachings of Marcus Garvey and that they use cannabis as the Rastafari sacrament.
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Leeds Clergy School Leeds Clergy School was a theological college of the Church of England which was founded in 1876 and closed in 1925. It was established by the Rev. John Gott, Vicar of Leeds and later Bishop of Truro, with the first principal being E C S Gibson, Lecturer at Leeds Parish Church. The school started with just six students, initially catering for those graduates who were aiming to obtain town curacies. It soon grew rapidly up to a maximum of twenty-four.
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African Orthodox Church The African Orthodox Church is a primarily African-American denomination founded in the United States in 1921. It has approximately 15 parishes and 5,000 members, down significantly from its peak membership.
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Church of Tuvalu The Congregational Christian Church of Tuvalu (Tuvaluan: Te Ekalesia Kelisiano Tuvalu, EKT), commonly the Church of Tuvalu, is the state church of Tuvalu, although in practice this merely entitles it to "the privilege of performing special services on major national events". Its adherents comprise about 97% of the 12,000 inhabitants of the archipelago, and theologically it is part of the Reformed tradition.
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McLean Bible Church McLean Bible Church is a non-denominational, evangelical Christian megachurch with several locations in the Washington, DC metropolitan area. Lon Solomon, a Jewish convert to Christianity, has been MBC's senior pastor since 1980. Solomon also serves on the board of directors of Jews for Jesus and was appointed by President George W. Bush to the President's Committee for Intellectual Disabilities. An average of 13,000 adults attend each weekend at the church's five campus locations: Arlington County, Loudoun County, Prince William County, and Tyson's Corner, plus Montgomery County, Maryland.
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Religious denomination A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates under a common name, tradition, and identity.
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Ellis Thomas Davies Ellis Thomas Davies (1822–1895) was a Welsh Independent minister. He grew up in the Llanuwchllyn area, where his father was an elder in the ‘Old Chapel'. As a boy he attended school at Weirglodd Wen, tutored by the local minister, Michael Jones. He then continued his education at Brecon College. He had begun to preach in 1842, and in 1847 he received a call to minister to the churches at Llansantsiôr and Moelfre. He was ordained the following year, and appointed as minister of Abergele church, where he remained until he retired in 1887.
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Evangelical Indigenous Mission in Madagascar The Evangelical Indigenous Mission in Madagascar (Misiona Evanjelika Teratany eto Madagasikara) is an Evangelical and Reformed denomination in Madagascar. The founder of the church was Pastor Rakatobe Adriamaro who was associated with the Paris Evangelical Missionary Society. The founding date is in 1955. In 2004 it had 105,000 members and 450 parishes served by 210 ordained clergy. There are 28 regional Synods and a General Assembly.
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National Association of Wesleyan Evangelicals The National Association of Wesleyan Evangelicals is a Wesleyan-Holiness Christian network of churches and ministers concentrated mostly in the Southern United States.
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Evangelical Presbyterian Church of East Timor The Evangelical Presbyterian Church of East Timor (Igreja Evangelica Presbyteriana iha Timor Leste in Tetun) is a Reformed Presbyterian denomination in East Timor with 14 churches and 3 chapels. It has 3,500 members and 9 pastors - 6 full-time 3 part- time pastors and 6 evangelists. The church is supported by the Presbyterian Church of Australia, and sister church relationship was also formed between these denominations. It held the foundational Synod in 2011. Contacts with the Christian Presbyterian Church in Portugal was also established and mission trip was made in East Timor on August 2012.
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Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia The Presbyterian Church of Eastern Australia (PCEA) is a small Presbyterian denomination which was formed in Sydney on 10 October 1846 by three ministers and a ruling elder. As of December 2012 it consists of 13 pastoral charges with a total of 17 regular preaching points, 12 serving ministers, 1 minister without charge, 6 retired ministers and a community of about 1,000 (including about 530 communicant members).
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Missionary Church The Missionary Church is an evangelical Christian denomination of Anabaptist origins. They are committed to Jesus Christ, the Bible, and the Great Commission.
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National City Christian Church National City Christian Church, located on Thomas Circle in Washington, D.C., is the national church of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) (often abbreviated as the "Disciples of Christ" or "Christian Church"). The denomination grew out of the Stone-Campbell Movement founded by Thomas Campbell and Alexander Campbell of Pennsylvania and West Virginia (then Virginia) and Barton W. Stone of Kentucky.
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Free Methodist Church in Canada The Free Methodist Church is a denomination of Methodism, which is a branch of Protestantism. It was founded in 1860 in New York by a group, led by B. T. Roberts, who was defrocked in the Methodist Episcopal Church for criticisms of the spiritual laxness of the church hierarchy. The Free Methodists are so named because they believed it was improper to charge for better seats in pews closer to the pulpit. They also opposed slavery and supported freedom for all slaves in the United States, while many Methodists in the South at that time did not actively oppose slavery. Beyond that, they advocated "freedom" from secret societies (e.g., Freemasons), which had allegedly undermined parts of the Methodist Episcopal Church.
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Royal Australian Army Chaplains' Department The Royal Australian Army Chaplains' Department is an all-officer Corps within the Australian Army that provides ordained clergy to minister to the personnel of the Australian Army. As of 2012, there are 67 serving regular chaplains (commonly known as "padres") in the Australian Army; these belong to either one of several Christian churches, or to the Jewish faith. There are also 83 chaplains in the Australian Army Reserve.