The Clergyfraction (Persian: فراکسیون روحانيت) is a cross-factional parliamentary group in the Iranian Parliament which consists of Shia clerics. The...
Assembly seats Preceded by Mohammad-Reza Ashtiani Araghi President of Clergyfraction 2016–2024 Incumbent Preceded by Heshmatollah Falahatpisheh President...
list of the Combatant Clergy Association (CCA). Formed by the "traditionalist right", CCA members shaped core of the fraction. Islamic Coalition Party...
World War II, the number of women priests in Shinto is a small fraction of contemporary clergy. Women in Shinto often appear as miko, shrine maidens who are...
festivals (such as Muharram and Ashura) and celebrations were banned, Shia clergy were forbidden to preach in extremist ideas. Although criticised by the...
saying that the first to reform must be the bishops themselves, then the clergy, and only then the laity.: 250 The Protestant Reformation was initiated...
church's funding, meaning that clergy pay depended on the wealth of the parish. The parish advowsons (the right to appoint clergy to particular parishes) could...
Alireza Zakani is General Secretary of the party. The group was formed a fraction inside Iranian Parliament, and is close to Ahmad Tavakoli. Elyas Naderan...
tensions have sometimes threatened to divide the Church. Tidehverv is a minor fraction based on a strict Lutheranism and anti-modern, national-conservative views...
Church, the NCC is a member church of the Union of Scranton. In 2011, a fraction of the Orthodox Church in Italy was organized as an association in memory...
by Christians, and especially by the clergy for the Eucharistic liturgy. In early-medieval Europe secular clergy also normally wore the alb in non-liturgical...
(OMIR) and the Majma’a Rohaneeyoon Mobarez or the Forum of the Militant Clergy, or Office for Fostering Unity and Freedom Movement of Iran. There were...
dress code. He was supported in his by the conservative/traditionalists fraction of the revolutionaries who were hostile to unveiled women, as expressed...
Banisadr Mehdi Bazargan Party Parties Islamic Republican Party Combatant Clergy Association Islamic Coalition Society Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution...
Additional involvement came from many other groups, including educators, clergy, academics, journalists, lawyers, physicians such as Benjamin Spock, and...
endorsed Rouhani. Strategic Council of Iran's Ahl Sunnah (RĀSĀ) and the Sunni fraction in the Iranian Parliament expressed support for him. Exiled opposition...
physical elimination of opposition and other socialist and revolutionary fractions, anarchists among the first: Of all the revolutionary elements in Russia...
for distribution to at least some of the faithful. ... The action of the fraction (breaking of bread), which gave its name to the Eucharist in apostolic...
in opposition to the ordination of openly homosexual bishops and other clergy and are usually referred to as belonging to the Anglican realignment movement...
consecrated host is displayed in a monstrance held aloft by a member of the clergy. At the end of the procession, Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament is imparted...
against ordaining women, and its handling of sexual abuse cases involving clergy. Catholic (from Greek: καθολικός, romanized: katholikos, lit. 'universal')...
of power by the clergy (theory of the wilayat al-Faqıh), a position that would only be adopted by a minority of the Iranian high clergy. Mamouri, Ali (12...
pro-government moderate conservatives who were on the Followers of Wilayat fraction of Ali Larijani's companions, and aimed to prevent the hardliners from...
established a number of new dioceses in India, encouraged the preparation of new clergy and established the Mar Narsai Press. In January 1964, he was suspended...