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Believers Eastern Church (BEC, previously Believers Church) is a church of Indian origin with congregations and parishes worldwide. It follows an episcopal governance and structure. [3] It holds Christ as its head ( Col 1:18 ) and further requires that bishops and ordained ministers submit to its metropolitan and his successors. [4]
Athanasius Yohan I (born K.P. Yohannan, 8 March 1950 – 8 May 2024) was an Indian Pentecostal Christian prelate who was the founder and president of GFA World formerly known as Gospel for Asia, [1] a large non-profit missions organisation with a focus on India and Asia. He was also the founding Metropolitan Bishop of Believers Eastern Church ...
The Eastern Orthodox Church is the primary religious denomination in Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Greece, Belarus, Serbia, Bulgaria, Georgia, Moldova, North Macedonia, Cyprus and Montenegro. Roughly half of Eastern Orthodox Christians live in the post Eastern Bloc countries, mostly in Russia.
The Believers Eastern Church (formerly Believers Church) is a Christian denomination with roots in Pentecostalism, based in Kerala, India. It exists as a part of the Gospel for Asia . [33] [34] In 2003, this church acquired episcopacy , by getting Indian Anglican bishops to ordain its founder K. P. Yohannan as a bishop.
Azerbaijan. 500 (2015 estimation) [10] Old Believers or Old Ritualists [a] are Eastern Orthodox Christians who maintain the liturgical and ritual practices of the Russian Orthodox Church as they were before the reforms of Patriarch Nikon of Moscow between 1652 and 1666.
e. The Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Church have been in a state of official schism from one another since the East–West Schism of 1054. This schism was caused by historical and language differences, and the ensuing theological differences between the Western and Eastern churches. The main theological differences with the Catholic ...
Based on the numbers of adherents, the Eastern Orthodox Church (also known as Eastern Orthodoxy) is the third largest Christian communion in the world, after the Roman Catholic Church, and Protestant denominations generally, with the most common estimates of baptised members being approximately 220 million.
Believers Church become an Episcopal Church only after the K P Yohannan was consecrated as a Bishop by the moderator of CSI Church. Till that time Believers Church was known as a Pentacostal Church. Hope you under stand why this article is relevant here. Benedictdilton 21:18, 23 April 2013 (UTC)