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Title: What the world believes, the false and the true, embracing the people of all races and nations, their peculiar teachings, rites, ceremonies, from the earliest pagan times to the present, to which is added an account of what the world believes today, by countries
Year: 1888 (1880s)
Authors: Rawson, Albert L. (Albert Leighton), 1829-1902 Hagar, George J. (George Jotham), 1847-1921
Subjects: Religions
Publisher: New York, Gay Brothers & company
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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itzin. Religious orders are numerous; the ancient Benedictineand Cistercian monks ; the Franciscan, Dominican, Carmel-ite, and Augustinian friars; Jesuits, Redemptorists, Servites,Oblates; Priests of the Holy Cross, of the Holy Ghost, ofthe Resurrection ; Sulpicians, Brothers of the ChristianSchools, Brothers of Mary; Xaverian, Alexian, and Fran-ciscan Brothers; Benedictine, Carmelite, Ursuline, Visita-tion, Dominican nuns; Ladies of the Sacred Heart; Sistersof Charity, of Mercy, and many others. At the close of the year 1885 the Catholic Church in theUnited States comprised 12 archbishops, 62 bishops, 7/200priests ; more than 1,600 young men studying for the priest-hood ; 6,755 churches, some of them, like the cathedrals ofNew York and Philadelphia, magnificent structures ; nearly3,000 chapels and stations, 36 ecclesiastical seminaries, 85colleges, 618 academies for young ladies, 2,621 parochialschools with 500,000 pupils, 449 asylums and hospitals, andnearly eight million adherents.
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CHAPTER XXI.THE GREEK, OR EASTERN, CHURCH. The Separation of the Greek from the Latin Church—Difference! between thetwo Churches—The Greek Priesthood—-Liturgies and Services of theChurch—Solemn Festivals—The Mass and Holy Sacraments. TIIE SEPARATION OF THE GREEK FROM THE LATIN CHURCH, TIIK Greek Church maybe considered, in regard to itsantiquity, as coeval with the Roman or Latin Church ;and for the first eight centuries, the two churches were radiated, not only in regard to the peculiar doctrinestheir faith, but also to their acknowledgment of the suprem-acy of the Roman pontiff. Tin* schism of these two church-is a most memorable epoch in ecclesiastical history, as itforms the most distinguishing picture of the two religionsat the present day. The members of fche Greek or EasternChurch, as contra-distinguished to the Roman or WesternChurch, are to be found in various parts of Europe, Ajsia, andAfrica, and are subdivided into three distinct classes: Fithose who agree on all

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