the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
His handwritten directions and palmprint on a brochure found in the Rogers' vehicle, along with a description of his boat written by Jo Rogers on the brochure, were the primary clues that led to his being named a suspect.
Also, authorities had posted the handwriting from the brochure on billboards, which was historic as it was used for the first time in an attempt to find the unknown killer, and this led to a tip from a former neighbor who was able to provide a copy of a work order that Chandler had written.
A handwriting analysis conclusively matched the two.
Sentence and aftermath
The Rogers women were all buried on June 13, 1989 after a funeral service at the Zion Lutheral Church in their hometown of Willshire, Ohio.
About 300 people among them family and friends of the victims attended the service.
Numerous police officers were also present to keep all news media and crews out of the church during the funeral service, this because of the huge media interest for the case by media at the time.
Chandler was tried and found guilty  of the murders, and sentenced to death on November 4, 1994.
After sentencing, the jury forewoman commented regarding the death sentence that "They need to do this swiftly.
The man is a mutation of a human being and he needs to be destroyed."
In July 2008, it was revealed that Chandler was on Florida's short-list of executions.
Profiling experts believe that Chandler may have killed previously, based on the speculation that a first-time killer would not be experienced or bold enough to abduct and kill three women at once.
Chandler remains a suspect in a 1982 murder of a woman found floating off Anna Maria Island, he is also a suspect in a rape case concerning a Canadian woman weeks before the Rogers women's murder.
However, Chandler has never been charged with other murders.
Chandler got an Institutional Adjustment disciplinary report on December 15, 2001, for disobeying orders in prison.
All of Chandler's appeals since his 1994 conviction have been denied, the latest one in May 2007.
Author Thomas French in 1998 won the Pulitzer prize for his article series Angels & Demons which told the story of the murders.
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Angels & Demons  Retrieved on 2010-03-08
Inmate details and case updates:Oba Chandler  Retrieved on 2010-03-08
Inmate Population Information Detail - Inmate 056979 .
Florida Department of Corrections.
American people executed for murder
All Saints' Day is celebrated by Catholic Christians on November 1.
Other Christians celebrate it as well. (
May not be on the same day) It is a mandatory Catholic holiday.
It is celebrated in the Catholic Church.
The next day, November 2 is celebrated as All Souls' Day, souls in Purgatory are especially remembered.
Both days are considered important and they are integrated with each other.
In Portugal, Spain and Mexico, ofrendas (offerings) are made on this day.
In Spain, the play Don Juan Tenorio is traditionally performed.
In Spain, Portugal, Italy and France, people bring flowers to the graves of dead relatives.
In Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Lithuania, Croatia, Austria and Germany, the tradition is to light candles and visit the graves of deceased relatives.
In the Philippines, the day is spent visiting the graves of deceased relatives, where they offer prayers, lay flowers, and light candles, often in a picnic-like atmosphere.
In English speaking countries the festival is traditionally celebrated with the hymn "For All the Saints" by William Walsham How.
The most familiar tune for this hymn is Sine Nomine by Ralph Vaughan Williams.
American Catholic - Saints FAQs, All Saints and All Souls Day
All Saints' Day article in the Catholic Encyclopedia
All Saints Sunday Orthodox England
All Saints Church, Barbados
Ishy Bilady is the national anthem (a song that represents the country) of the seven United Arab Emirates.
The tune was written in the year 1971 without words to sing.
Then, in the year 1986 Arif Al Sheikh Abdullah Al Hassan Sahab came up with words for the song.
The song is dedicated to the UAE.
In the song, the people praise their country by stating that "the unity of the Emirates has lived" and "the United Arab Emirates has lived to be the nation, whose religion is Islam and whose guide is the Quran" the people also vow to forever work hard and sincerely for the country.
The people also state that they "supply their country with their body, blood and souls."
The song is a representation of love and submission of the Emirati people to country.
It music was composed by Mohammed Abdul Wahab.
1971 establishments in Asia
Establishments in the United Arab Emirates
Origami is a traditional Japanese art of paper folding.
It uses many techniques and various objects can be created.
The object is made of origami paper, which is specially made for folding and staying in shape.
Many dictionaries and television shows suggest that origami is only paper cranes, waterbombs, and paper planes, but many new models and creatures have been made because new folding techniques have allowed this.
When the Japanese first folded origami, they used only one piece of paper.
A different kind of origami called modular origami uses many small pieces that are the same, which are combined to form one large model.
Also, many mathematical shapes can be made with origami.
The beginnings of origami are not clear.
Paperfolding started in China in the 1st or 2nd century.
It finally came to Japan in the 6th century.
Instead of making models that looked exactly like things, the first origami models only looked similar to things.
People often folded models and gave them to other people for good luck.
For example, Shinto nobles celebrated weddings with sake in glasses decorated with origami butterflies, which gave good luck to the bride and groom.
There were also independent paperfolding traditions in other countries, like Germany and Spain.
The earliest evidence of paperfolding in Europe is a picture of a boat in 1490.
There was also a paper box from 1440.
Finally, in 1845, Kan no mado was written, and it was the first book of origami models.
Recently, people have become more interested in origami.
In 1954, Japanese paperfolder Akira Yoshizawa created rules to explain how to fold origami models.
His instructions on paperfolding are now used in all countries.
Peter Engel, who is a well-known paperfolder, says "the best paper [for origami] is thin and crisp and absolutely square."
Pre-cut origami paper is sold in many colors, sizes, and patterns.
Duo paper, or paper with different colors on each side, is used by paperfolders because it makes areas of different color on the finished model.
There are also special papers, like textured, metallic, and patterned.
Many people like to make their own paper.
Engel describes a process shown to him by Robert J. Lang that is "a sandwich of aluminum foil and two pieces of tissue paper."
In this method, two pieces of paper are pasted to each side of the aluminum foil.
Many people like origami because there is almost always paper.
Copy paper, napkins, wallpaper, index cards, and even paper money can be used to make interesting and unique models.
Many paperfolders prefer to use a flat surface to fold models on, but others, like the Japanese, fold in the air.
Traditional paperfolders believe that only the hands should be used when folding, but many modern folders use other tools when folding.
Tweezers and paper clips can be used to make very small folds.
Some folders use rulers or other flat tools to make sharper creases in the models.
Pureland
Pureland origami is origami with one rule: only one fold can be made at a time.
British paperfolder John Smith started pureland origami for inexperienced paperfolders or for people with poor motor skills.
Hard folds, like the inside-reverse fold, are not allowed in pureland origami.
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The act of saying something; an expression in words.
The thing stated; a declaration.
A formal account, implying or claiming to be truthful.
An official assessment of a situation.
In philosophy and logic, a statement is a sentence which declares that something meaningful is either true or false.
See proposition.
following the sunnah of prophet Muhammad (surah Baqarah)
rejecting shirk, or disbelief in the oneness of Allah (sahih Bukhari)
being saved from something, such as suffering or the punishment of sin - also called deliverance (see Epistle to the Romans 5:8)
being saved for something, such as an afterlife or participating in the Reign of God - also called redemption (Gospel of Luke 23:43)
being saved through a process of healing or transformation to wholeness, such as gaining secret knowledge, or becoming Christlike.(Ephesians 1:4)
A polyhedron (one polyhedron, many polyhedra, or polyhedrons) is a geometrical shape.
It is a 3D shape with flat faces, and straight edges.
Each face is a polygon surrounded by edges.
Usually it is defined by the number of faces, or edges.
Two types of polyhedron are convex and concave.
The line connecting any two points of a convex polyhedron is inside the polyhedron.
The line connecting two points of a concave polyhedron may go outside the polyhedron.
Mathematicians do not agree on what makes a polyhedron.
They do agree that there are five Platonic solids, which are regular polyhedra.
On a regular polyhedron, all faces are the same and all vertices are the same.
Usually, polyhedra are named by the number of faces they have.
The first polyhedra are the tetrahedron, which is made of four triangles, pentahedron (five faces, can look like a four-sided pyramid), hexahedron (six faces, a cube if it is regular), heptahedron (seven faces) and octahedron (eight faces).
Prisms, pyramids and other shapes can also be named according to how many faces they have.
Making Polyhedra
Polyhedra Pages
Stella: Polyhedron Navigator – Software for exploring polyhedra and printing nets for their physical construction.
Includes uniform polyhedra, stellations, compounds, Johnson solids, etc.
Virtual Reality Polyhedra – The Encyclopedia of Polyhedra
Polyhedra and Pyramids
Paper Models of Uniform (and other) Polyhedra
Interactive 3D  polyhedra in Java
World of Polyhedra  – Comprehensive polyhedra in flash applet, showing vertices and edges (but not shaded faces)
Polyhedra software, die-cast models, and posters
Electronic Geometry Models – Contains a peer reviewed selection of polyhedra with unusual properties
Symmetry, Crystals and Polyhedra
uniform solution for uniform polyhedra by Dr. Zvi Har'El
Java applet with the use of kaleido
Origami Polyhedra – Models made with Modular Origami
Polyhedra Collection – Various virtual and physical polyhedra models
A pentagon is a polygon with five edges.
It is defined by five points, which are all on a plane.
If all the edges have the same length and the angles at the corners are all 108°, the pentagon is called regular.
If the pentagon intersects itself, it is called a pentagram.
Pentagons also occur in nature: Fruits of the Okra are pentangular.
The flowers of Ipomoea are pentagular.
In chemistry, many Cyclic compounds are pentangles: Cyclopentane and Furan are examples for this.
In architecture, many bastions are pentangular: Bourtange, in the Netherlands has been completely restored, and is a pentangle.
The Citadel of Lille, Nyenschantz, near St. Petersburg, or the Citadel of Pamplona are .
The Villa Farnese is a palace in the form of a pentagon, so is the castle of Nowy Wiśnicz.
The Pilgrimage Church of Saint John of Nepomuk near Žďár nad Sázavou  also uses a pentangular design.
Note: these formulas only work for regular pentagons.
R is the radius of the circumcircle.
Examples of pentagons
A Calendar date is a way to refer to a certain day in a calendar.
With the calendar date and the calendar, the exact day can be identified.
With a different calendar, the same calendar date may refer to a different day.
This can be seen easiest when comparing the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar.
Calendar dates are important to refer to events (most holidays are fixed with reference to a particular event or calendar date.)
One example may be Easter.
In the Middle Ages, it has been fixed that Easter is to be the first Sunday that is (on or after) the 14th day after the spring equinox.
Most calendar systems have a date format that has three parts, the day of a certain month, the month and the year.
Sometimes the week is added.
The Iranian calendar  also known as Persian calendar or the Jalāli Calendar is a solar calendar.
It is currently used in Iran and Afghanistan.
It is observation-based, rather than rule-based.
Each year starts on the vernal equinox as precisely determined by astronomical observations from Tehran (or the 52.5°E meridian, which also defines IRST) and Kabul.
This makes it more accurate than the Gregorian Calendar.
The current Iranian Calendar year is 1400AP (AP = Anno Persico/Anno Persarum = Persian year).
An online Persian/Gregorian date convertor, Persian calendar for mobile (j2me)
A hexagon is a polygon with 6 sides and 6 corners (vertices).
Like regular triangles and squares, hexagons fit together without gaps, which are known as tesselations.
They therefore are often used for tiling floors.
They are also quite common in nature.
The honeycombs in beehives are hexagons, for example.
Hexagons: in nature and by humankind
Definition and properties of a hexagon With interactive animation
Cassini Images Bizarre Hexagon on Saturn
Saturn's Strange Hexagon
A hexagonal feature around Saturn's North Pole
"Bizarre Hexagon Spotted on Saturn" - from Space.com (27 March 2007)
The West Edmonton Mall (WEM) is the second-largest shopping centre in North America.
It is in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
It is one of the main tourist attractions in Alberta.
The mall is also the fourth largest in the world.
WEM first opened on September 15, 1981.
Galaxyland: The worlds largest indoor Amusement park.
The park has 24 rides.
These rides include a triple loop rollercoaster.
World Waterpark: world's largest indoor waterpark.
The park includes the worlds largest indoor wavepool.
The wavepool can create waves up to 5–6 feet in height.
It also has ten water slides.
Its tallest water slide is 83 feet high.
Deep Sea Adventure: An indoor salt water lake with performing sea lions.
The lake also has a structure built to look like Christopher Columbus' Santa María.
A map of the mall
The list of shops in the mall
Hours of Operation
Malls
Although his name resembles that of Mohammad Khatami, the reformist former president of Iran, the two men are not related.
In fact, they have opposite points of view on many issues, such as democracy and velayate faqih in Iran.
The Republicans in the U.S. Are in a Crisis; Sanctions on Iran Will Harm the West More than Iran
Iran warns France: US rope decaying
A tendon (or sinew) is a tough band of tissue that connects muscle to bone.
It is built to withstand tension.
Tendons are similar to ligaments except that ligaments join one bone to another.
Tendons and muscles work together.
They can only create a pulling force.
The beginning of a tendon is where it connects to a muscle.
Collagen fibers from the inside of the muscle are the same as those of the tendon.
A tendon inserts into bone at an enthesis.
At this point, the collagen fibers are changed into bone tissue.
Tendons can not create any pulling force of their own.
The tendons transfer the movement of muscles.
They can create an elastic force if stretched.
Tendons are part of the human body often connected to joints.
Coffee substitutes are products that try to taste like coffee.
The idea for using them is to have a drink that tastes like coffee, but has no caffeine in it.
The main reasons for making coffee substitutes are medical, economic and barbaric.
In World War II, acorns were used to make coffee, however it tasted foul.
It was also hard to get.
In the American Civil War there was a similar story -
"For the stimulating property to which both tea and coffee owe their chief value, there is unfortunately no substitute; the best we can do is to dilute the little stocks which still remain, and cheat the palate, if we cannot deceive the nerves."
The Southern Banner, 1865
Chicory has been sold commercially on a large scale since around 1970, and it has become a mainstream product.
It was widely used during the American Civil War on both sides.
Postum is an instant type beverage used in place of coffee.
It reached the height of its popularity during World War II.
For popular usage on the sitcom Seinfeld George says to Jerry he does not know why postum is not a more popular beverage.
Kuzcham Dherai (also sometimes called Dherai, Dehrai or Derai) is a town in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, Pakistan.
It is located on the bank of the river Swat and a couple of miles away from Swat Saidu Sharif airport.
The population of Dherai is about 10,000 people.
Towns in Pakistan
Social class refers to the differences between groups in societies or cultures, and is a basic idea in economics, sociology and other social sciences
Class (education), a group of students in a course or lesson
class, a lesson, in education
class, short for a classroom
Class (biology), a rank used in taxonomy
Class (philosophy), distinguishes between classes and types
Class (set theory), in mathematics
Travel class
Media, entertainment and sport
Character class in role-playing games and other genres
Class (film), a romantic comedy released in 1983
Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, a book by Paul Fussell
The Class, a CBS sitcom which began in fall 2006
Class, known as one-design in sailing, where boats built the same way race against each other
Appliance classes, in making electric appliances
Class (emission), a type of radio emission
Ship class, in a navy, a set of vessels that are built the same way
Class (programming), related to object-oriented programming
Class (file format), a Java file format
Class (warez), a warez group that stopped being used
Class attribute, a part of many HTML and XHTML elements, such as span and div, often to help apply styles
Class (locomotive), a railroad locomotive design as assigned by the railroad
The classification of United States railroads by income:
Class I railroad
Class II railroad
Class III railroad
CLASS, Community Leaders At Service of Society, a non-profit organization in Silicon Valley, California.
"Class", British slang word meaning "great" or "fabulous".
Croatian grammar is the grammar of the Croatian language.
The Croatian language consists of three vernaculars (Kaikavian, Chakavian and Shtokavian).
Croatian grammar books show that the codification of the language started at the beginning of the 17th century (the first grammar was written by Bartol Kašić in Latin in 1604).
This means that the rules for the language were written down.
From 1604 to 1836 there were 17 grammars.
Most of them described the Štokavian dialect, but some were about Kajkavian.
In the 19th century, more grammars based on Štokavian were written.
They were "Nova ricsoslovnica illiricka", written by Šime Starčević (1812), and "Grammatik der illyrischen Sprache", written by Ignjat Alojzije Brlić (1833),.
Even before the 19th century, the three dialects of the Croatian language were almost equally used.
However, the way each dialect was written down varied throughout Croatia.
Near the Adriatic coast, it was more similar to Italian, and near the Hungarian border, it was more similar to Hungarian.
In 19th century, Ljudevit Gaj proposed new letters from Czech (č,ž,š,ľ,ň,ď and ǧ).
The letters that were accepted were č, ž and š, and from Polish, ć.
For other phonemes (sounds), the digraphs that were accepted were ie, lj, nj and dž.
Later dj or gj was changed to đ (according to proposal by Đuro Daničić).
The Croatian language uses a Latin script of 30 letters and one diphthong "ie" or "ije", and "ŕ".
This system is called gajica in Croatian (or Croatian Gaj's Latin alphabet).
The name came from Ljudevit Gaj.
The letter order (and whole alphabet) is called abeceda in Croatian, because the first 4 letters are spelled "a, be, ce, de".
For writing foreign names and words, and in some professions, the Croatian language uses letters which do not belong to gajica, like "X, x (iks), Y,y (ipsilon)" and others.
Grammatical cases
In Croatian, nouns change form depending on the composition of the sentence.
This is called declension.
For people who are learning Croatian, declension is the most difficult part of the language to master.
It is very complicated and time consuming to explain it and because of that we will use simpler techniques.
However, many languages have noun and pronoun declension, including English.
In English, though, only pronoun declension now remains.
Let us start by explaining all of the seven Croatian grammatical cases.
The technique that is most frequently used in determining grammatical cases (the same technique is used in Croatian schools when taught to children) is by asking yourself a question when you are trying to figure out which case a noun should be in.
In Croatian, grammatical cases are called padeži (plural) and padež (singular).
In this example you will be shown how to determine a noun's grammatical case by using the table below.
Krešimir is going to school. (
Krešimir ide u školu.)
The question you will ask yourself here is: “Where is Krešimir going?”.
And the answer is that he's going to school.
By looking at the table below you will see that the question 'where' is used for the Locative case.
Croatian nouns are divided into three genders: the masculine, feminine and neuter gender.
To know a noun's gender is very important because it affects all the words in a sentence that are tied to the noun, such as adjectives.
A gender is determined by the noun's ending (with some exceptions).
This makes it easier to tell what gender a noun is without memorizing the gender of every word.
See the table below.
Nouns retain their gender in plural.
For instance, even though the noun 'žene' (women) ends in -e, it is of the feminine gender.
Grammatical aspects
Croatian verbs have two grammatical aspects: the perfective and imperfective.
The perfective aspect depicts an action that has already been finished.
The imperfective aspect depicts an action that is still continuing.
So, each verb in its infinitive form can be written in 2 ways: in its perfective and imperfective aspect.
The table below is showing 5 verbs both in their perfective and imperfective aspects.
Grammatical tenses
In Croatian, there are seven grammatical tenses.
They can be divided in two ways: by the time they take place in and by their complexity.
Simple tenses consist of only 1 word (simple tenses are aorist, imperfect, and present) while complex tenses consist of 2 or even 3 words (complex tenses are pluperfect, perfect, first future, second future) because they also consist of auxiliary verbs.
Also, some grammatical tenses cannot be formed with both grammatical aspects, they work with only one aspect.
Common phrases
Basic and common expressions:
Colours:
Days, months & seasons
Days:
Months:
Official prizes often include monetary rewards as well as the fame that comes with them.
Some prizes are given out in famous ceremonies, such as the Oscars.
Prizes are given for a number of reasons: as an honour for special persons, for exemplary behaviour and to provide incentives in competitions, etc.
However, many  prizes, especially the more famous ones, have often caused controversy and jealousy.
First prize, second prize, third prize etc.
Consolation prize: an award given to those who do not win an event but are deserving of recognition.
Booby prize: typically awarded as a joke to whoever finished last.
This article is about the universal religious institution.
For general information about Christianity or information about specific Christian denominations, see the appropriate page.
For other uses, see Church (disambiguation).
The term Christian Church, Catholic Church or One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, as it was called by 110 AD, refers to the "universal company of believers".
It means every person who has ever accepted or ever will accept the Christian Faith.
The idea is that all these people together make up one "body" called "the Church". "
The Church" (in this sense) is not thought of by Christians as an ordinary human organisation.
It is thought of as being part of God's way to bring people close to him. "
The Church" was begun by Jesus in the 1st century AD.
It is called "The Christian Church" because Jesus was called "The Christ" (or holy one from God).
Today there are many churches in the sense of "church organisations".
The different organised churches are called Christian denominations.
The main Christian beliefs are held by all major Christian denominations.
These beliefs are often said aloud by Christian people in a "statement of faith" which is called the Creed.
The Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Lutheran, Anglican Communion and other Protestant churches all believe that God is the "creator and eternal father of all things", that Jesus was the "Christ" and son of God who died to save people from the punishment for their sins, and that the Holy Spirit is God's gift to help and comfort Christian people.
Christians believe that these are three parts of One God.
There are many other beliefs that are different between different denominations.
These differences have sometimes caused arguments and have caused the organised church to split into denominations.
The different opinions are called controversies.
During Late Antiquity, the Christian Church started became the most important persecuting organization in human history.
The English word church comes from the Greek κυριακή (kyriake) meaning "Master's (house)", or "Lord's (house)".
In modern English the word "church" is used for both a church building and "the Christian Church" throughout the world.
In 381 AD, at the a meeting of bishops known as the First Council of Constantinople, the Nicene Creed (a statement of beliefs) that was used at the time was changed to include a description of the Church.
The words that were added to the Nicene Creed are "One Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church".
This important addition describes the four most important things that Christians were to believe about the Christian Church.
The Church is One.
This means that there is only one true Christian Church.
It is "universal".
The Church is Holy.
This means that it is the Church of the true and living God.
The Church is Catholic.
This means that the Church includes "everyone" who is a true Christian believer.
The Church is Apostolic.
This means that it was begun by the Twelve apostles of Jesus and that Christian believers follow in their footsteps.
One important controversy is simply the definition of the Christian or Catholic Church.
To some degree this controversy comes from the Nicene Creed with its words One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church which means universal church.
Many denominations believe that all denominations are part of a world-wide Christian Church and think that the most important thing is the "common faith" and not a common organisation or tradition. ("
Common faith" means "the faith that is the same".
The word "common" does not mean "ordinary" in this sense.)
For many hundreds of years, the Roman Catholic Church has regarded itself as the only Christian Church and has called itself the Catholic (or "universal") church.
In other words, only those people who were within the organisation of the Roman Catholic Church were believed to belong to the Universal Church.
In the 20th century this view began to change and in the late 20th century there was a strong movement within parts of the Roman Catholic Church to reach out to other denominations.
The Eastern Orthodox Church has thought of itself in the same way, but in the late 20th century there has been much more discussion between the Orthodox Church and Roman Catholic, Lutheran and Anglican Churches.
Some smaller denominations such as Jehovah's Witnesses also believe that they are the one and only true Christian Church.
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Church, a building used for religious services, usually referring specifically to those for Christian worship.
Christian Church, the worldwide body of Christians.
Christian church, the body of people who share a faith or denomination within a community.
Religious denomination, an organization of churches sharing the same faith.
Church, Lancashire, a city in England
Albert T. Church (born 1947), a Vice-Admiral in the United States Navy
Alonzo Church (1905–1995), a logician, (famous for the Church-Turing thesis and lambda calculus)
Benjamin Church (1734–1776), the first Surgeon General of the Continental Army and grandson of Captain Benjamin Church
Captain Benjamin Church (1639–1718), a colonial officer during King Philip's War
Bill Church, an American musician
Brad Church
Charlotte Church (born 1986), British soprano singer and talk show host
Doug Church, a video-game designer
Ellen Church
Forrester Church (born 1948), an  American minister, son of Senator Frank Church
Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906), an American writer (famous for the editorial Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus)
Frank Church (1924–1984), a four-term U.S. Senator from Idaho
Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900)), a landscape painter
George W. Church, Sr.,
founder of Church's Chicken, a chain of franchised fried chicken restaurants
John A. Church, an expert on sea-level and its changes
Judith Church (born 1953), a politician in the United Kingdom
Louis K. Church
Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954), an American writer and civil-rights activist
Mike Church (born 1962), a Southern US radio commentator often considered a shock jock
Richard Church (general) (1784–1873), a British military officer and general in the Greek army
Richard William Church (1825–1890), an English divine, nephew of the general
Richard Church (poet) (1893–1972), an English poet and man of letters
Robert Reed Church (1839–1912), the first African-American millionaire
Ryan Church (born 1978), an American baseball player
Thomas Dolliver Church (1902–1978), an American landscape architect
Thomas Haden Church (born 1961), an American actor in television and movies
Thomas Langton Church (1870–1950), a Canadian politician
Walter G. Church, Sr.,
member of the North Carolina General Assembly
William Church (circa 1778 - 1863), American inventor who patented a typesetting machine in 1822
The Church, an Australian rock band
Church, weekly meetings of the Hells Angels motorcycle club
"The Church", a song by Hawkwind from their 1982 album Church of Hawkwind
"Church", a song by Outkast from their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
"Church", a song by Galactic from their 1998 album Coolin' Off
Chvrches, an electropop trio from Glasgow, Scotland
Church (Red vs. Blue), a fictional character
Church, the family cat in Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary
The Church, set up by The Order in Silent Hill
In Hinduism the major deity or philosophical belief functions as the identifier of a denomination and typically each has distinct cultural and religious practices.
The major denominations include Shaivism, Shaktism, Vaishnavism, Smartism, and Halumatha.
The word denomination is used for a large group of Christian people right across the world who use the same name, the same sort of organisation and have the same (or very similar) beliefs.
Christianity is divided into ten main groups.
These groups all branched out at different dates from the early Christianity founded by the followers of Jesus.
The splits generally happened because they could not agree on certain beliefs or practices.
The groups then divided into smaller groups.
Each group that has its own separate name is a "denomination".
The word "denomination" means "Being given a name”
Denominations
Oriental Orthodox (Miaphysite)
Church of the East (Nestorian)
Nontrinitarian
Each of these ten has important subdivisions.
There are also other (smaller) groups that are not mentioned here.
The Evangelical and Nontrinitarian branches of Christianity are much more divided up than any of the others.
Each separate Evangelical church is often called a "denomination".
While the Roman Catholic Church looks to a single earthly leader, the Pope, and has similar beliefs right across the world, the several Protestant denominations do not look to a single leader and sometimes have beliefs that are very different from each other.
Many Christian denomination see themselves as part of the worldwide Church which includes other denominations as well.
Some denominations, such as the Roman Catholic and Orthodox Churches and some Protestant Churches, believe that they are the only true Christian church.
Some denominations have beliefs which almost all the other denominations would disagree with, very strongly.
These beliefs are called "heresy" by the other churches.
There were some movements considered heresies by the early church which do not exist today and are not generally referred to as denominations.
Examples include the Gnostics (who had believed in an esoteric dualism), the Ebionites (who venerated Christ's blood relatives), and the Arians.
The greatest divisions in Christianity today, however, are between Eastern Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism, and various denominations formed during and after the Protestant Reformation.
There also exists in Protestantism and Orthodoxy various degrees of unity and division.
Comparisons between denominations must be approached with caution.
For example, some churches are part of a larger church organization or diocese, while in other groups, each congregation is an independent organization.
This issue is further complicated by the existence of groups of congregations with a common heritage that are officially nondenominational and have no centralized authority or records, but which are identified as denominations by non-adherents.
Study of such churches in denominational terms is therefore a more complex proposition.
Numerical comparisons are also problematic.
Some groups count membership based on adult believers and baptized children of believers, while others only count adult baptized believers.
Others may count membership based on those adult believers who have formally affiliated themselves with the congregation.
In addition, there may be political motives of advocates or opponents of a particular group to inflate or deflate membership numbers through propaganda or outright deception.
Christian Denominations History, profiles and comparison charts of major Christian denominations.
Denominational links from the Ecumenism in Canada site
The Christian Post
Canadian Church Headquarters
The Eastern Christian Churches – A Brief Survey
Denominations at WikiChristian
Map Gallery of Religion in the United States
Christian denominational families
Christianity – 2.51 billion
Catholicism – 1.329 billion
Catholicism is the largest branch of Christianity with 1.329 billion and the Catholic Church is the largest among churches.
Figures below are in accordance with the Annuario Pontificio, at 2018.
The total figure does not include independent Catholic denominations (18 million).
Latin Church – 1.311 billion
Eastern Catholic Churches – 18 million
Byzantine Rite – 8.2 million
Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church – 5.5 million
Melkite Greek Catholic Church – 1.6 million
Romanian Greek Catholic Church – 0.5 million
Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church – 0.4 million
Hungarian Greek Catholic Church – 0.3 million
Slovak Greek Catholic Church – 0.3 million
Belarusian Greek Catholic Church – 0.1 million
Italo-Albanian Catholic Church – 0.01 million
Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia – 0.01 million
Georgian Byzantine Catholic Church  – 0.01 million;
Albanian Greek Catholic Church – 0.01 million
Russian Greek Catholic Church – 0.01 million
Macedonian Greek Catholic Church – 0.001 million
Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church – 0.001 million
Greek Byzantine Catholic Church – 0.001 million
East Syriac Rite – 4.9 million
Syro-Malabar Catholic Church – 4.3 million
Chaldean Catholic Church – 0.6 million
West Syriac Rite – 4.2 million
Maronite Church – 3.5 million
Syro-Malankara Catholic Church – 0.5 million
Syriac Catholic Church – 0.2 million
Armenian Rite – 0.8 million
Armenian Catholic Church – 0.8 million
Alexandrian Rite – 0.5 million
Coptic Catholic Church – 0.2 million
Eritrean Catholic Church – 0.2 million
Ethiopian Catholic Church – 0.1 million
Canonically irregular groups
Society of Saint Pius X – 1 million (claimed)
Independent Catholicism – 18 million
Philippine Independent Church – 6 million (Part of the Anglican Communion)
Chinese Patriotic Catholic Association – 6 million
Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church – 5 million
Traditionalist Mexican-American Catholic Church – 2 million
Old Catholic Church – 0.1 million (Part of the Anglican Communion)
Polish National Catholic Church – 0.03 million
Apostolic Catholic Church – 0.005 million
Palmarian Catholic Church – 0.002 million
Protestantism – 900 million
Protestantism is the second largest major group of Christians by number of followers.
Estimates vary from 800 million to a billion, or nearly 40% of all Christians.
The main reason for this wide range is the lack of a common agreement among scholars as to which denominations constitute Protestantism.
For instance, most sources but not all include Anabaptism, Anglicanism, Baptists and Independent Nondenominational Christianity as part of Protestantism.
Moreover, Protestant denominations altogether do not form a single structure comparable to the Catholic Church, or to a lesser extent the Eastern Orthodox Communion.
However, several different comparable communions exist within Protestantism, such as the Anglican Communion, World Communion of Reformed Churches, World Baptist Alliance, World Methodist Council and the World Lutheran Federation.
Regardless, 900 million is the most accepted figure among various authors and scholars, and thus is used in this article.
Note that this 900 million figure also includes Anglicanism, as well as Anabaptists, Baptists and multiple other groups that might sometimes disavow a common "Protestant" designation, and would rather prefer to be called, simply, "Christian".
Historical Protestantism – 300–400 million
Anglicanism – 110 million
Anglican Communion – 85 million
Church of England – 25.0 million
Church of Nigeria – 20.1 million
Church of Uganda – 8.1 million
Anglican Church of Kenya – 5.0 million
Episcopal Church of South Sudan and Sudan – 4.5 million
Church of South India – 3.8 million
Anglican Church of Australia – 3.1 million
Anglican Church of Southern Africa – 2.3 million
Anglican Church of Tanzania – 2.0 million
Episcopal Church in the United States – 1.8 million
Church of North India – 1.5 million
Anglican Church of Rwanda – 1.0 million
Church of the Province of Central Africa – 0.9 million
Anglican Church of Burundi – 0.8 million
Church in the Province of the West Indies – 0.8 million
Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia – 0.5 million
Church of the Province of the Indian Ocean – 0.5 million
Church of Christ in Congo–Anglican Community of Congo – 0.5 million
Church of Pakistan – 0.5 million
Church of Ireland – 0.4 million
Anglican Church of Canada – 0.4 million
Church of the Province of West Africa – 0.3 million
Anglican Church of Melanesia – 0.2 million
Episcopal Church in the Philippines – 0.1 million
Continuing Anglican movement and independent churches – 0.4 million
Traditional Anglican Communion – 0.4 million
Anglican Church in North America – 0.09 million
Reformed Evangelical Anglican Church of South Africa – 0.09 million
Baptist churches – 75–105 million
Southern Baptist Convention – 14.5 million
National Baptist Convention, USA, Inc. – 7.5 million
Nigerian Baptist Convention – 6.5 million
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America – 3.1 million
National Baptist Convention of America, Inc. – 3.1 million
Baptist Union of Uganda – 2.5 million
Baptist Community of Congo – 2.1 million
Baptist Convention of Tanzania – 2.0 million
Baptist General Convention of Texas – 2.0 million
Brazilian Baptist Convention – 1.6 million
Progressive National Baptist Convention – 1.5 million
Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India – 1.3 million
American Baptist Churches USA – 1.2 million
Baptist Bible Fellowship International – 1.2 million
Lott Carey Foreign Mission Convention – 1.1 million
Baptist Community of the Congo River – 1.1 million
National Primitive Baptist Convention of the U.S.A. – 1.0 million
Myanmar Baptist Convention – 1.0 million
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship – 0.8 million
Baptist General Association of Virginia – 0.6 million
Baptist Convention of Kenya – 0.6 million
Nagaland Baptist Church Council – 0.6 million
Korea Baptist Convention – 0.5 million
Samavesam of Telugu Baptist Churches – 0.5 million
Orissa Evangelical Baptist Crusade – 0.5 million
National Baptist Convention (Brazil) – 0.4 million
Baptist Convention of Malawi – 0.3 million
Garo Baptist Convention – 0.3 million
Convention of Philippine Baptist Churches – 0.3
Ghana Baptist Convention – 0.3
Union of Baptist Churches in Rwanda – 0.3 million
Conservative Baptist Association of America – 0.2 million
National Association of Free Will Baptists – 0.2 million
Convention of Visayas and Mindanao of Southern Baptist Churches – 0.2 million
Manipur Baptist Convention – 0.2 million
Evangelical Baptist Church of the Central African Republic – 0.2 million
Converge – 0.2 million
Seventh Day Baptists – 0.05 million
Lutheranism – 70–90 million
Evangelical Church in Germany - 21.1 million (10.5 million United Protestants, i.e. Lutheran & Reformed; 10.3 million Lutherans; 0.3 million Reformed)
Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus – 8.3 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania – 6.5 million
Church of Sweden – 5.8 million
United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India – 4.5 million
Church of Denmark – 4.3 million
Batak Christian Protestant Church – 4.0 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland – 3.8 million
Church of Norway – 3.7 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America – 3.4 million
Malagasy Lutheran Church – 3.0 million
The Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria – 2.2 million
Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod – 2.0 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea – 1.2 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Namibia – 0.7 million
Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil – 0.6 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa – 0.6 million
The Protestant Christian Church – 0.5 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Namibia – 0.4 million
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod – 0.4 million
Evangelical Free Church of America – 0.4 million
The Indonesian Christian Church – 0.3 million
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ – 0.3 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon – 0.3 million
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria – 0.3 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe – 0.3 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia – 0.3 million
Christian Protestant Church in Indonesia – 0.3 million
Church of Iceland – 0.2 million
Simalungun Protestant Christian Church – 0.2 million
Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil – 0.2 million
Protestant Church of Augsburg Confession of Alsace and Lorraine – 0.2 million
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia – 0.2 million
Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary – 0.2 million
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church – 0.2 million
Reformed churches (Calvinism) – 60–80 million
Presbyterianism – 40 million
Presbyterian Church of East Africa – 4.0 million
Presbyterian Church of Nigeria – 3.8 million
Presbyterian Church of Africa – 3.4 million
National Presbyterian Church in Mexico – 2.8 million
Presbyterian Church in Korea (HapDong) – 2.6 million
Presbyterian Church of Korea (TongHap) – 2.5 million
Church of Christ in Congo–Presbyterian Community of Congo – 2.5 million
Presbyterian Church of Cameroon – 1.8 million
Presbyterian Church in Korea (BaekSeok) – 1.5 million
Presbyterian Church (USA) – 1.4 million
Presbyterian Church of India – 1.3 million
Church of Central Africa Presbyterian – 1.3 million
Presbyterian Church in Sudan – 1.0 million
Presbyterian Church in Cameroon – 0.7 million
Presbyterian Church of Brazil – 0.7 million
Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Ghana – 0.6 million
United Church of Christ in the Philippines – 0.5 million
Uniting Presbyterian Church in Southern Africa – 0.5 million
United Church of Canada – 0.4 million
Presbyterian Church in America – 0.4 million
Presbyterian Church of Pakistan – 0.4 million
Presbyterian Church in Korea (Koshin) – 0.4 million
Church of Scotland – 0.3 million
Korean Presbyterian Church – 0.3 million
Presbyterian Church in Rwanda – 0.3 million
Uniting Church in Australia – 0.2 million
Presbyterian Church in Taiwan – 0.2 million
Presbyterian Church in Ireland – 0.2 million
Continental Reformed churches – 30 million
Church of Jesus Christ in Madagascar – 3.5 million
Protestant Church in Indonesia – 3.1 million
United Church in Zambia – 3.0 million
Evangelical Church of Cameroon – 2.5 million
Swiss Reformed Church – 2.4 million
Christian Evangelical Church in Timor – 2.0 million
Protestant Church in the Netherlands – 1.8 million
Dutch Reformed Church in South Africa (NGK) – 1.1 million
Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa – 0.7 million
United Church in Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands – 0.6 million
Protestant Church in Western Indonesia – 0.6 million
Evangelical Christian Church in Tanah Papua – 0.6 million
Protestant Church of Maluku – 0.6 million
Reformed Church in Hungary – 0.6 million
Reformed Church in Romania – 0.6 million
Uniting Reformed Church in Southern Africa – 0.5 million
Toraja Church – 0.4 million
Reformed Church of France – 0.4 million
Lesotho Evangelical Church – 0.3 million
Evangelical Christian Church in Halmahera – 0.3 million
Christian Church of Sumba – 0.3 million
Karo Batak Protestant Church – 0.3 million
Christian Reformed Church of Nigeria – 0.3 million
Reformed Church in Zambia – 0.3 million
Evangelical Reformed Church in Angola – 0.2 million
Reformed Church in America – 0.2 million
Christian Reformed Church in North America – 0.2 million
Kalimantan Evangelical Church – 0.2 million
Javanese Christian Church – 0.2 million
Indonesia Christian Church – 0.2 million
Church of Christ in the Sudan Among the Tiv – 0.2 million
Church of Lippe – 0.2 million
Evangelical Church of Congo – 0.2 million
Christian Evangelical Church of Sangihe Talaud – 0.2 million
Central Sulawesi Christian Church – 0.2 million
Evangelical Reformed Church in Bavaria and Northwestern Germany – 0.2 million
Congregationalism – 5 million
Evangelical Congregational Church in Angola – 0.9 million
United Church of Christ – 0.8 million
United Congregational Church of Southern Africa – 0.5 million
Methodism – 60–80 million
United Methodist Church – 12 million
African Methodist Episcopal Church – 2.5 million
Church of the Nazarene – 2 million
Methodist Church Nigeria – 2 million
The Salvation Army – 1.8 million
Methodist Church of Southern Africa – 1.7 million
Korean Methodist Church – 1.5 million
African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church – 1.4 million
United Methodist Church of Ivory Coast – 1 million
Free Methodist Church – 0.9 million
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church – 0.9 million
Methodist Church Ghana – 0.8 million
Methodist Church in India – 0.6 million