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AUDAEUS , or AUDIus, a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church reformer of the 4th See also:century, by See also:birth a Mesopotamian. He suffered much persecution from the Syrian See also:clergy for his fearless censure of their irregular lives, and was expelled from the church, thereupon establishing an episcopal monastic community. He was afterwards banished into See also:Scythia, where he worked successfully among the Goths, not living to see the destruction of his labours by See also:Athanaric. The Audaeans celebrated the feast of See also:Easter on the same See also:day as the Jewish See also:Passover, and they were also charged with attributing to the Deity a human shape, an See also:opinion which they appear to have founded on See also:Genesis i. 26. See also:Theodoret groundlessly accuses them of Manichean tendencies.
The See also:main source of See also:information is See also:Epiphanius (Haer. 7o).
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