2003

The year 2003.
==Events==
*Pope John Paul II criticizes the United States invasion of Iraq.
*The Roman Catholic Church announces that Pope John Paul II suffers from Parkinson's Disease.
*Methodist Church of England and the Church of England sign a covenant.
*A sect of the Assyrian Church of the East is discovered in China, though long cut off from the denomination's head, the Patriarch of Babylon.
*Death of Derek Prince, Pentecostal theologian.
*Pfarrer Braun (Father Brown) debuts on German TV.
* February 27: Dr. Rowan Douglas Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury at Canterbury Cathedral.
*June 22: Pope John Paul II visits Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
*October: the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issues a statement congratulating Pope John Paul II on entering the 25th year of his papacy.
*November 9 Sharon Tubbs cites Pentecostalism as "the world's fastest-growing Christian movement."
==Deaths==
*August 4: Death of Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh, Russian Orthodox bishop of the diocese of Sourozh
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