[History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. by Rufus Anderson]@TWC D-Link bookHistory Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume II. CHAPTER XXXIV 28/32
As you know, the community furnish half the pastor's salary from the start." In October, four months later, there was an ordination of much interest at Cesarea, where the churches in Constantinople, Marsovan, Sivas, and Yozgat were represented.
It was in one of the most important centres of influence.
Gregory the Illuminator was ordained in Cesarea, and he went forth from that place to his great work of Christianizing the Armenian nation nearly sixteen hundred years ago. There were born the great church teachers of Cappadocia, Basil of Cesarea and his brother Gregory of Nyssa.
In the middle of the third century, the bishop of Cesarea protested against the usurpations of the bishop of Rome. "Wednesday morning the council met and organized.
The whole day was given to the examination of the candidate, which was held in the church, and was attended by from two to three hundred persons.
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