Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod, the Glossary

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1. 51 relations: Aizawl, Aizawl Theological College, American Samoa, Bible, Bungalow, China, Christian Conference of Asia, Christian denomination, Christianity in Mizoram, Council for World Mission, Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India, Frederick William Savidge, J. Meirion Lloyd, James Herbert Lorrain, Jesus, Khasi Hills, Khasi people, Lalsawma, LGBT clergy in Christianity, List of Christian denominations in Northeast India, Liverpool, Madagascar, Meghalaya, Mizo language, Mizoram, Moderator of the General Assembly, National Council of Churches in India, Nepal, North East India Christian Council, Northeast India, Padma Shri, Presbyterian Church (USA), Presbyterian Church of India, Presbyterian Church of Wales, Presbyterian polity, Protestantism, Reformed Christianity, Same-sex marriage, Shillong, Solomon Islands, Sunday school, Synod, Synod Hospital, Durtlang, Taiwan, The Reverend, The Times of India, Tuvalu, United Kingdom, Wales, Welsh people, ... Expand index (1 more) »

2. 19th-century Presbyterian churches
3. Christian organizations established in 1897
4. Churches in Mizoram
5. Presbyterian organizations established in the 19th century
6. Presbyterianism in India

Aizawl

Aizawl (Mizo), formerly known as Aijal, is the capital city and the most populous city of Mizoram, India.

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Aizawl Theological College

Aizawl Theological College is an ecumenical seminary of the Presbyterian Church in Aizawl, Mizoram, India.

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American Samoa

American Samoa is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean.

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Bible

The Bible (from Koine Greek τὰ βιβλία,, 'the books') is a collection of religious texts or scriptures, some, all, or a variant of which are held to be sacred in Christianity, Judaism, Samaritanism, Islam, the Baha'i Faith, and other Abrahamic religions.

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Bungalow

A bungalow is a small house or cottage that is single-storey, and may be surrounded by wide verandas.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Christian Conference of Asia

The Christian Conference of Asia is a regional ecumenical organisation representing 15 National Councils and over 100 denominations (churches) in New Zealand, Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand.

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Christian denomination

A Christian denomination is a distinct religious body within Christianity that comprises all church congregations of the same kind, identifiable by traits such as a name, particular history, organization, leadership, theological doctrine, worship style and, sometimes, a founder.

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Christianity in Mizoram

Christianity is the largest religion in Mizoram.

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Council for World Mission

The Council for World Mission (CWM) is a worldwide community of mainly Protestant Christian churches.

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Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India

The Council of Baptist Churches in Northeast India is a Baptist Christian denomination in North East India.

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Frederick William Savidge

Frederick William Savidge (1862 – 1935) was a pioneer English Christian missionary in northeast India.

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J. Meirion Lloyd

John Meirion Lloyd (Corris, Merionethshire 4 May 1913 - Prestatyn, 30 September 1998) was a Welsh Presbyterian missionary in Mizoram, India.

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James Herbert Lorrain

James Herbert Lorrain, or Pu Buanga, (6 February 1870 – 1 July 1944) was a Scottish Baptist missionary in northeast India, including Mizoram, Assam, and Arunachal Pradesh.

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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Khasi Hills

The Khasi Hills are a low mountain formation on the Shillong Plateau in the Meghalaya state of India.

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Khasi people

The Khasi people are an ethnic group of Meghalaya in north-eastern India with a significant population in the bordering state of Assam, and in certain parts of Bangladesh.

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Lalsawma

Lalsawma is an Indian social worker, writer and a Christian missionary and Pastor of the Mizoram Presbyterian Church.

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LGBT clergy in Christianity

The ordination of lesbian, gay, bisexual and/or transgender (LGBT) clergy who are open about their sexuality or gender identity; are sexually active if lesbian, gay, or bisexual; or are in committed same-sex relationships is a debated practice within some contemporary Christian denominations.

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List of Christian denominations in Northeast India

The following shows the Christian denominations present in Northeast India, along with number of churches and approximate number of Church members.

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Liverpool

Liverpool is a cathedral, port city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England.

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Madagascar

Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar and the Fourth Republic of Madagascar, is an island country comprising the island of Madagascar and numerous smaller peripheral islands.

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Meghalaya

Meghalaya (or, "the abode of clouds") is a state in northeast India.

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Mizo language

Mizo is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken mainly in the Indian state of Mizoram, where it is the official language and lingua franca.

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Mizoram

Mizoram is a state in northeastern India, with Aizawl as its seat of government and largest city.

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Moderator of the General Assembly

The moderator of the General Assembly is the chairperson of a General Assembly, the highest court of a Presbyterian or Reformed church.

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National Council of Churches in India

The National Council of Churches in India is an ecumenical forum for Protestant and Orthodox churches in India.

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Nepal

Nepal, officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, is a landlocked country in South Asia.

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North East India Christian Council

North East India Christian Council (NEICC) is a Protestant ecumenical council of North East India, affiliated to the National Council of Churches in India as one of the regional councils in the year 1939.

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Northeast India

Northeast India, officially the North Eastern Region (NER), is the easternmost region of India representing both a geographic and political administrative division of the country. It comprises eight states—Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland and Tripura (commonly known as the "Seven Sisters"), and the "brother" state of Sikkim.

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Padma Shri

The Padma Shri (IAST: padma śrī), also spelled Padma Shree, is the fourth-highest civilian award of the Republic of India, after the Bharat Ratna, the Padma Vibhushan and the Padma Bhushan.

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Presbyterian Church (USA)

The Presbyterian Church (USA), abbreviated PCUSA, is a mainline Protestant denomination in the United States.

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Presbyterian Church of India

The Presbyterian Church of India (PCI) is a mainline Protestant church based in India, with over one and a half million adherents, mostly in Northeast India. Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod and Presbyterian Church of India are Presbyterian denominations in Asia and Presbyterianism in India.

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Presbyterian Church of Wales

The Presbyterian Church of Wales (Eglwys Bresbyteraidd Cymru), also known as the Calvinistic Methodist Church (Yr Eglwys Fethodistaidd Galfinaidd), is a denomination of Protestant Christianity based in Wales.

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Presbyterian polity

Presbyterian (or presbyteral) polity is a method of church governance ("ecclesiastical polity") typified by the rule of assemblies of presbyters, or elders.

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Protestantism

Protestantism is a branch of Christianity that emphasizes justification of sinners through faith alone, the teaching that salvation comes by unmerited divine grace, the priesthood of all believers, and the Bible as the sole infallible source of authority for Christian faith and practice.

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Reformed Christianity

Reformed Christianity, also called Calvinism, is a major branch of Protestantism that began during the sixteenth-century Protestant Reformation, a schism in the Western Church.

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Same-sex marriage

Same-sex marriage, also known as gay marriage, is the marriage of two people of the same legal sex.

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Shillong

Shillong is a hill station and the capital of Meghalaya, a state in northeastern India.

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Solomon Islands

Solomon Islands, also known simply as the Solomons,John Prados, Islands of Destiny, Dutton Caliber, 2012, p,20 and passim is a country consisting of 21 major islands Guadalcanal, Malaita, Makira, Santa Isabel, Choiseul, New Georgia, Kolombangara, Rennell, Vella Lavella, Vangunu, Nendo, Maramasike, Rendova, Shortland, San Jorge, Banie, Ranongga, Pavuvu, Nggela Pile and Nggela Sule, Tetepare, (which are bigger in area than 100 square kilometres) and over 900 smaller islands in Melanesia, part of Oceania, to the northeast of Australia.

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Sunday school

A Sunday school is an educational institution, usually Christian in character and intended for children or neophytes.

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Synod

A synod is a council of a Christian denomination, usually convened to decide an issue of doctrine, administration or application.

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Synod Hospital, Durtlang

Synod Hospital, Durtlang (formerly known as Presbyterian Hospital, Durtlang) is a general hospital and nursing school in Aizawl, Mizoram, India.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia.

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The Reverend

The Reverend is an honorific style given before the names of certain Christian clergy and ministers.

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The Times of India

The Times of India, also known by its abbreviation TOI, is an Indian English-language daily newspaper and digital news media owned and managed by The Times Group.

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Tuvalu

Tuvalu, formerly known as the Ellice Islands, is an island country in the Polynesian subregion of Oceania in the Pacific Ocean, about midway between Hawaii and Australia.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.

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Wales

Wales (Cymru) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Welsh people

The Welsh (Cymry) are an ethnic group native to Wales.

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World Communion of Reformed Churches

The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is the largest association of Reformed (Calvinist) churches in the world.

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See also

19th-century Presbyterian churches

• Église Unie St-Marc
• Arnisdale Free Church
• Caledonia Road Church
• Chalmers-Wesley United Church
• English Presbyterian Church of Wales, Chester
• French Protestant Church of London
• Iglesia Presbiteriana San Andrés (Centro)
• Jan Hus Presbyterian Church
• Knox United Church (Calgary)
• Lochdon Free Church
• Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod
• Naas Presbyterian Church
• Orchard Road Presbyterian Church
• Presbyterian Chapel, Rossett
• Reformed Great Church of Debrecen
• Scots Church, Cobh
• Scots Kirk, Kandy
• St Andrew's Church, Liverpool
• St James' Presbyterian Church of England, Bristol
• St Luke's Church, Broughty Ferry
• St Luke's United Reformed Church, Silverhill, Hastings
• St Michael and All Angels Church, Blantyre
• St Vincent Street Church, Glasgow
• St. Andrew's Church, Chennai
• Union Chapel, Brighton
• Welsh Presbyterian Church, Chester
• Welsh Presbyterian Church, Liverpool

Christian organizations established in 1897

• Alcuin Club
• All Saints Church, West Dulwich
• Caritas Internationalis
• Christ Episcopal Church (Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania)
• Congregation of Saint Michael the Archangel
• Daughters of Isabella
• Diocese of Bristol
• Ealing Abbey
• Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum (Jacksonville)
• Lutheran Free Church
• Mennonite Church in India
• Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod
• Montreat Conference Center
• Pilgrim Holiness Church
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of La Plata in Argentina
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Maracaibo
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Santa Fe de la Vera Cruz
• Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Tucumán
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Florida
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Salto
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Tucson
• SS. Peter and Paul's Church (Bronx)
• Sacred Heart Catholic Church (Fort Dodge, Iowa)
• Society of the Atonement
• St Luke's Episcopal Church (Long Beach, California)
• St. Adelbert's Church (Bronx)
• St. Ambrose Church (New York City)
• St. Catherine of Siena Church (New York City)
• St. Luke's Church (Bronx)
• St. Martin of Tours' Church (Bronx)
• Trinity Episcopal Cathedral (Sacramento, California)
• Two by Twos

Churches in Mizoram

• Evangelical Church of Maraland
• Kohhran Thianghlim
• Mizo Conference of Seventh-day Adventist
• Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod
• Roman Catholic Diocese of Aizawl
• Solomon's Temple, Aizawl

Presbyterian organizations established in the 19th century

• American Mission in Egypt
• Church of Central Africa Presbyterian – Blantyre Synod
• Church of Central Africa Presbyterian – Nkhoma Synod
• Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul
• First Presbyterian Church (Chattanooga, Tennessee)
• First Presbyterian Church (Edmonton)
• Fort Street Presbyterian Church (Detroit)
• Free Presbyterian Church Synod of the United States
• Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod
• Presbyterian Historical Society
• Presbyterian Theological College
• Richwood Presbyterian Church
• Scots Kirk, Kandy
• St Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Wingham
• St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church, Colombo
• Washington Presbytery
• Welsh Presbyterian Chapel, Charing Cross Road
• Worthington Presbyterian Church

Presbyterianism in India

• Christ Church, Salem
• Evangelical Presbyterian Church of Sikkim
• Fort Church, Bangalore
• Free Presbyterian Church, Kalimpong
• Ludhiana Mission Press
• Mizoram Presbyterian Church Synod
• Presbyterian Church in India (Reformed)
• Presbyterian Church of India
• Presbyterian Church of South India
• Presbyterian Free Church of Central India
• Presbyterian Reformed Church in India
• Reformed Presbyterian Church North East India
• Reformed Presbyterian Church of India
• Reformed and Presbyterian Fellowship of India
• South India Reformed Churches
• St. Andrew's Church, Bangalore
• St. Bartholomew's Church, Mysore
• St. John's Church, Bangalore
• St. John's Church, Vellore
• St. Mark's Cathedral, Bangalore
• St. Mark's Church, Mercara
• St. Paul's Church, Bangalore
• Tripura Presbyterian Church Synod

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mizoram_Presbyterian_Church_Synod

Also known as Kristian Thalai Pâwl, Mizoram Presbyterian Church, Mizoram Presbyterian Churches, Presbyterian Church of Mizoram.

, World Communion of Reformed Churches.