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Church of God International Headquarters in Cleveland, Tennessee. The precise legal name of this body is "Church of God". After a protracted court case involving donations intended for the use of its orphanages being received by other groups using the same name, the Supreme Court of Tennessee determined that it alone was entitled to use the simple name Church of God in 1953.
The Church of God in Christ ( COGIC) is an international Holiness – Pentecostal Christian denomination, [ 2][ 4] and a large Pentecostal denomination in the United States. [ 5] Although an international and multi-ethnic religious organization, it has a predominantly African-American membership based within the United States.
The United Church of God, an International Association (UCGIA or simply UCG) [2] is a nontrinitarian Christian church based in the United States.. The UCG calls itself "The United Church of God, an International Association", with the last three words italicized in order to differentiate the UCG from local congregations and denominations which bear similar names.
Church of God (Restoration), a Restorationist group founded in the 1980s that teaches that it is the one true church. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, in its origination period in the early 1830s named "Church of God" after "Church of Jesus Christ" and before today's name in 1834. La Luz del Mundo, a church founded in Mexico in ...
CGI was founded in 1978 by four former members of the Worldwide Church of God, [2] including evangelist Garner Ted Armstrong (1930–2003) [3] after his father, Herbert W. Armstrong, excommunicated him from the WCG and fired him from all roles in the church over disagreements about operations and certain doctrinal positions.
On 1 January 2024 a new presbytery covering all of the Highlands and Hebrides (except Lewis) was created: the presbyteries of Argyll, Caithness, Sutherland, Ross, Inverness, Abernethy, Lochaber, Locharron-Skye, and Uist merged into Clèir Eilean ì (the Presbytery of the Island of Iona). Therefore, the total number of presbyteries now stands at 14.
The Church of God, Preparing for the Kingdom of God ( COG-PKG) is an apocalypticist splinter sect of the Worldwide Church of God (WCG) that claims to provide "support, education and warning" to former members of the WCG. It is one of many groups that left the WCG after its sweeping doctrinal changes in the late 1980s, and forms a part of the ...
The (Original) Church of God shares a common origin and history with the Church of God (Cleveland) and several other Christian bodies named Church of God.The (Original) Church of God, Inc. came into being in 1917, when the Church of God in Chattanooga, Tennessee, led by Joseph L. Scott, separated from the Cleveland-based church.