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Events with high posterior probability

John Charles McQuaid	(In the aftermath of the 1921 Treaty the Church of Ireland offered to return either St. Patrick's Cathedral or Christ Church to the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland : they refused the offer) Archbishop McQuaid bought the gardens in the centre of Merrion Square and announced plans to erect a cathedral there.
Richard Chartres	In January 2006, Chartres was criticised by the media for his decision to spend Easter on a cruise ship giving lectures on theology rather than attend the services at St Paul's Cathedral.
Ren? Vilatte	Brothers was consecrated by Bishop Rudolph de Landas Berghes in 1916 and later deposed by him, for what'' appears to have been'' to Brandreth,'' on the grounds that at the time of the consecration he had not, in fact, received the Orders of deacon and priest.''
Tarcisio Bertone	On 31 March 2007, Cardinal Bertone confirmed Pope Benedict's impending publication of the long-expected motu proprio extending the indult for the celebration of the Tridentine Mass in an interview with the French newspaper Le Figaro.
Mary Ann Glendon	In 1994, she was a signer of Evangelicals and Catholics Together, an ecumenical document aimed at rapprochement between Catholics and Evangelicals.
Richard Baumann	After he had long sought in vain to find within the Protestant Church for hearing his case a reunion with Rome, in 1982, he converted to the Catholic Church.
Raymond Leo Burke	According to a Thursday, October 25, 2012 news brief from Catholic News Service (CNS), in written comments to the Synod on Tuesday afternoon, October 23, Cardinal Burke criticized'' antinomianism'' - the belief that grace exempts Christians from obedience to the moral law.
Andrew Burnham (priest)	Burnham was announced as the third Bishop of Ebbsfleet (a so-called'' flying bishop'') on 12 September 2000 and the appointment was confirmed by Letters Patent issued by Queen Elizabeth II on 22 November 2000.
Israel Shamir	In 2004 Shamir was baptized into the Greek Orthodox Church of Jerusalem by Archbishop Theodosios (Atallah) Hanna of Sabastia and given the name Adam.
Giampaolo Crepaldi	In 2003, he founded the International Center'' Cardinal Van Thuan'' on the Social Doctrine of the Church, of which he is President.
John I. Jenkins	More notably, his invitation to President Barack Obama to attend Notre Dame's 2009 commencement ceremony and to receive an honorary degree was heavily criticized by some Catholics, including most American bishops, who opposed the invitation because Obama's stance on abortion differs from the official stance of the Catholic Church.
Thomas John Curry	On 31 January 2013, Curry resigned his post as auxiliary bishop of the Santa Barbara Pastoral Region, in response to the Archdiocese's release of thousands of pages of files documenting sexual abuse by priests and efforts to cover them up.
Cosmo Gordon Lang	Archbishop Davidson resigned in July 1928 (he is believed to have been the first Archbishop of Canterbury ever to retire voluntarily).
Nolbert Kunonga	A judge ordered in January 2008 that the breakaway Anglican province led by Kunonga must share the use of church buildings with the Anglican Church of the Province of Central Africa loyal to Bishop Sebastian Bakare.
Patriarch Irenaios	Before the publication of the commission report, some Orthodox Church leaders in Jerusalem announced on May 5, 2005 in a letter that they had broken off contact (some called it boycotting) with Patriarch Irenaios, and regarded him as dismissed as Patriarch of Jerusalem.
Nicolas Stacey	In 2005 he was awarded the Cross of St Augustine, given personally by the Archbishop of Canterbury'' for outstanding service within the Church of England whether centrally or in the dioceses, or the Anglican Communion as a whole, and to those who have contributed to advancing relations between the various Christian communions and churches.''
Richard Rohr	In 1997, Rohr spoke at a symposium of New Ways Ministry, a ministry to homosexual people which was condemned by the Vatican's Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith for not teaching in accord with the Catholic Church's moral teachings regarding homosexuality.
Jean Lasserre	Together with the Mennonite theologian John Howard Yoder, Jean Lasserre contributed significantly to the position of Christian pacifists interpreting the meaning of the beatitude of Jesus in Matthew 5:9,'' Blessed are the peacemakers,'' in the wake of the Ecumenical Conference of 1948 in Amsterdam regarding the three different positions within Christianity over the issue of violence.
Anthony Petro Mayalla	He served as the head of the President of the TEC Council (Tanzania Episcopal Conference) beginning on June 1983 while he was Bishop of Mwanza, despite being a Roman Catholic bishop.
Patrick O'Donoghue (bishop)	In October 2008 he came into direct conflict with trustees of the local Catholic-founded adoption agency, Catholic Caring Services (CCS), which was attempting to enact homosexual adoption contrary to Church teachings, following the UK government's Sexual Orientation Regulations.
Cyprian Michael Iwene Tansi	1950 was a jubilee year in the church, and Michael was first sent to Rome to make the pilgrimage to the four major basilicas.
Andrea Cassulo	Five days after the last of Cassulo's 1941 diplomatic protests, Antonescu informed the nuncio of his signing a decree allowing students of any ethnic origin to attend their own religious schools.
Michael A. Milton	Milton's writings and sermons on issues of religious liberty and Christianity and culture have been published in the United States and the United Kingdom Michael Milton succeeded D. James Kennedy as the Teaching Pastor for Truth that Transforms with the first national broadcast of that continuing program on Sunday, September 29, 2013 on the NRB Network, channel 378, DirectTV.
Velasio de Paolis	In a 21 November 2011 letter, Cardinal De Paolis asked the consecrated in Regnum Christi to edit their core set of norms, and took force away from a more extensive set of norms.
Moses (Kulik)	On 17 -- 18 June 2005, on Trinity Sunday by the decision of Holy Synod and by the decision of the Ecumenical Episcopal Council of UAOC canonical, Metropolitan Moses was chosen and enthroned to Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus-Ukraine.
Peter Akinola	His first reaction on the Windsor Report 2004 was outspoken and critical, but the statement from the Primates gathered at the first African Anglican Bishop's Conference, headed by Akinola, was more moderate and expressed commitment to the future of the Anglican Communion.
Iris Habib Elmasry	In 1954, Pope Joseph II appointed Iris as the female delegate of the Coptic Church to the Second Assembly of the World Council of Churches in Evanston, Illinois, USA.
Josef Hirsch Dunner	Dunner was thrust into the public eye in 2002 when he placed an advert in the Jewish Chronicle, the UK's most prominent Jewish newspaper, along with Rabbi Bezalel Rakow, the rabbi of Gateshead, in which they expressed profound concern over passages in a slim volume, The Dignity of Difference, produced by Dr Jonathan Sacks, the Chief Rabbi.
Renato Martino	In July 2010, Cardinal Martino assumed the position of Honorary President of the Dignitatis Humanae Institute, a Rome based organisation established to promote human dignity' based on the recognition that man is made in the image and likeness of God.'
J?r?me Lejeune	Afterward, Lejeune regularly traveled to Rome to meet with the Pope, to attend meetings of the Pontifical Academy of Sciences, and to participate in other church events, such as the 1987 Synod of Bishops.
Alexandre do Nascimento	He preached the Lent en spiritual exercises for the Pope and members of the Roman Curia in 1984.
Randall Davidson	Davidson presided over two Lambeth Conference s and was present at five of the first six, Bell's biography suggests that at least part of the reason for his resignation was his natural reluctance to face the work and worry of the seventh conference, eventually held in 1930.
Stephen Kocisko	The case of Bishop Elko, who describes his situation as' exile', casts fascinating light on Catholicism's current internal stresses...'' The Vatican next appointed Kocisko on December 22, 1967 to replace Elko as the chief hierarch.
Robert Finn (bishop)	In August 2005, he encouraged use of the traditional Tridentine Mass in his diocese in accord with Indult provisions established during Pope John Paul II's tenure, and welcomed the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest to the diocese to celebrate Mass at St. Patrick's Oratory, the city's oldest church.
Edward Egan	In January 2009, he publicly condemned the controversial statements made by Society of Saint Pius X Bishop Richard Williamson.
Joseph White Musser	However, upon his May 1951 decision to select Rulon C. Allred as an apostle, some other members of the presiding Priesthood Council felt they were being bypassed.
Zecharias Frankel	Frankel proved that no Jewish doctrine justified such an assumption, and owing to his work a new regulation (13 February 1840) put the Jews on the same basis as Christian s as regards testimony in court.
Tim Wise	His anti-apartheid activism was first brought to national attention in 1988, when South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu announced he would turn down an offer of an honorary degree from Tulane after Wise's group informed him of the school's ongoing investments there.
D. M. Canright	In severing his relations with his home church, the Otsego Seventh-day Adventist Church, Canright stated the following, as recorded by the church clerk : In 1933, the Review and Herald published In Defense of the Faith : A Reply To Canright.
Conan O'Brien	On October 21, 2011, O'Brien was ordained as a minister by the Universal Life Church Monastery, allowing him to perform a same-sex marriage while back in New York (where gay marriage is legal) to tape a week's worth of shows.
John Tuohill Murphy	He assisted at the foundation of Catholic University in Washington, D. C. Further associations included Archbishop John Ireland of Saint Paul, Minnesota, and Mother Katharine Drexel, who was later to be canonized in 2000.
Benjamin Brewster (bishop)	In 1936 he presented a resolution to the House of Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church requesting Franklin D. Roosevelt to call an international conference of nations which had signed the Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact.
William Ragsdale Cannon	Later, as a Bishop, he also observed the Extraordinary Synod of the R. C. Church in 1985.
Pope Leo XIII	Since Leo XIII, Papal teachings expand on the rights and obligations of workers and the limitations of private property : Pope Pius XI Quadragesimo Anno, the Social teachings of Pope Pius XII on a huge range of social issues, John XXIII Mater et Magistra in 1961, Pope Paul VI, the encyclical Populorum Progressio on World development issues, and Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus, commemorating the 100th anniversary of Rerum Novarum.
James Francis McIntyre	He suspended Father William DuBay, who had called for McIntyre's removal in 1964 for not sufficiently supporting civil rights movement, after the latter advocated a labor union for Catholic priests and published a book sharply critical of the Catholic Church hierarchy.
Faustino Sainz Mu?oz	On 2 December 2010 a Mass of thanksgiving was celebrated at Westminster Cathedral, which marked the end of his role as papal nuncio to Great Britain.
William Anthony Donohue	On April 4, 2007, South Park parodied Donohue in the eleventh season episode'' Fantastic Easter Special'' as a power-hungry official of the Catholic Church who overthrows the Pope and sentences Jesus ('' The Jew'') to death for going against him and contradicting Catholic belief.
Georgy Roshko	In 1955 Roshko was to Moscow, where he met with the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church, Alexy I of Moscow and Chairman of the Department for External Church Relations Metropolitan Nicholas (Yarushevich) and visited the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius and Yasnaya Polyana.
Samuel Wilberforce	On the publication of John William Colenso's Commentary on the Romans in 1861, Wilberforce endeavoured to induce the author to hold a private conference with him ; but after the publication of the first two parts of the Pentateuch Critically Examined he drew up the address of the bishops which called on Colenso to resign his bishopric.
Fulton J. Sheen	On Sunday, September 9, 2012, a Mass of Thanksgiving and banquet was held at St. Mary's Cathedral and the Spalding Pastoral Center in celebration of the advancement of Archbishop Sheen's cause, with Bishop Daniel R. Jenky, C. S. C., and his predecessor as Bishop of Peoria, Newark Archbishop John J. Myers (celebrating his 25th anniversary of episcopal ordination), in attendance, along with many of the clergy and religious of the diocese and from around the country.
Kamehameha IV	In 1856, Kamehameha IV decreed that December 25 would be celebrated as the kingdom's national day of Thanksgiving, accepting the persuasions of the conservative American missionaries who objected to Christmas on the grounds that it was a pagan celebration.
Julio Vizcarrondo	Despite this setback, on January 24, 1869 he was able to convince the mayor of Madrid to grant the members of the Protestant faith permission to hold their religious services in public.
George Carey	In November 2006, Carey was barred from delivering a Church Mission Society lecture at Bangor Cathedral by the Dean of Bangor, who viewed that Carey had become'' a factor of disunity and of disloyalty to Rowan Williams, a divisive force.''
John Hagee	On May 12, 2008, Hagee issued a letter of apology to William Donohue, the president of the Catholic League, expressing regret for'' any comments that Catholics have found hurtful.''
Charles Colson	In November 2009, Colson was a principal writer and driving force behind an ecumenical statement known as the Manhattan Declaration calling on evangelicals, Catholics and Orthodox Christians not to comply with rules and laws permitting abortion, same-sex marriage and other matters that go against their religious consciences.
Denzil Meuli	In 1969 Meuli was appointed editor of the newspaper, Zealandia, by Archbishop Liston of Auckland in a controversial episode accompanying the profound changes to the Catholic Church in New Zealand engendered by the second Vatican Council.
Germogen (Maximov)	In the dignity of Archbishop Germogen, member of the General Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad, on 15 -- 29 September 1936 in Sremski Karlovci, Yugoslavia, was elected Metropolitan Anastasia (Gribanovsky) as the new Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad.
Walter Kasper	In 1993 he and other members of the German episcopate signed a pastoral letter allowing divorced and civilly remarried German Catholics to return to the sacraments, to the disapproval of then Cardinal Ratzinger.
Archbishop Anastasios of Albania	As Archbishop, within huge difficulties, he achieved the restoration, from her foundation, of the Church of Albania -- more than 400 parishes were reorganized ; He established the Theological Academy `` Resurrection'' in Durrës (1992) and 2 Ecclesiastical Lycees.
Francis George	Later, on January 1, 2013, in an official pastoral letter to the priests and people of the Archdiocese that also served as his column in that issue of the The Catholic New World archdiocesan newspaper (co-signed by the incumbent Auxiliary Bishops of the Chicago Archdiocese and also appearing on the website of the Catholic Conference of Illinois), George stated that the (likely imminent) passage of a same-sex marriage law in the state would be'' acting against the common good of society.
Pope Pius XI	In March, Pope Pius XI issued the Mit brennender Sorge encyclical - accusing the Nazi Government of violations of the 1933 Concordat, and further that it was sowing the'' tares of suspicion, discord, hatred, calumny, of secret and open fundamental hostility to Christ and His Church''.
Odilo Scherer	According to a July 23, 2010 article by the website of the Catholic news organization ZENIT, Cardinal Scherer thinks there is an'' evangelization deficit'' around the globe today, which is why Pope Benedict established a new division of the Roman Curia to deal with that issue.
Alexander Akinyele	The Bishop who lived a life of purity and uprightness enjoined all Christians - as in his famous sermon delivered on February 12, 1956, when Queen Elizabeth II on state visit to Nigeria ; worshiped at St. James Cathedral, Oke bola, Ibadan - to use their eyes, heads, hands, voices and hearts for uplifting Jesus Christ.
Wilford Woodruff	Under great political and financial pressure, Woodruff issued the 1890 Manifesto which ended the church's official support of plural marriage in the territory of the United States and directed Latter-day Saints to enter only into marriages recognized by the laws in the areas in which they resided.
Lindsay Urwin	Urwin has stated his personal position on homosexuality as follows : He was co-presenter of the'' Youthful Spirit'' youth ministry presentation to the 1998 international Lambeth Conference of bishops, with Bishop (later Archbishop) David Moxon.
E. LeBron Fairbanks	During the 89th Session of the General Board of the Church of the Nazarene that met in Overland Park, Kansas in February 2012, Fairbanks' ministry in the Church of the Nazarene was recognized, and the following tribute was included : : Along the way his career and service to the Church of the Nazarene and higher education include a distinguishing characteristic of servant leadership with a strong emphasis on personal integrity.
Pope Pius XII	In his 1939 Summi Pontificatus first papal encyclical, Pius reiterated Catholic teaching against racism and antisemitism and affirmed the ethical principles of the'' Revelation on Sinai''.
Norbert Brunner	In November 2009, he declared that he was in favor of the ordination of married priests, and that most Swiss bishops agreed with him on this.
Gianna Beretta Molla	-- The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services, issued by the United States Catholic Conference of Bishops (5th edition, 2009), Directives 45 and 47 Gianna opted for the removal of the fibroma, wanting to preserve her child's life.
Pio of Pietrelcina	After further consideration of Padre Pio's virtues and ability to do good even after his death, including discussion of another healing attributed to his intercession, the Pope declared Padre Pio a saint on June 16, 2002.
Julius Joseph Overbeck	Overbeck had also begun to convince others of the feasibility of a Western Orthodox Church and was ultimately able to submit a petition of 122 signatures (mostly Tractarians) to the Holy Synod in 1869 asking for the creation of a Western Rite.
Hugh O. Pentecost	His increasingly political and theologically unorthodox sermons led to controversy within his congregation in Newark ; in December 1887, he resigned from his post and announced that'' My studies furthermore have given me such changed opinions regarding many fundamental doctrinal ideas that I feel I can no longer remain in the orthodox ministry or the orthodox church.''
Antonije Abramovi?	During the breakup of Yugoslavia, with a group of followers, Antonije unabashedly proclaimed himself the Metropolitan of the new Montenegrin Orthodox Church in Cetinje in 1993.
Giacomo Bini	On 14 May 1997, at the General Chapter meeting at St. Mary of the Angels near Assisi Bini was elected the successor of St Francis and leader of the worldwide Order of Franciscan Friars, As head of the Franciscan Order, which is the official Catholic' custos of the Holy Land', he was present at Mount Nebo to greet Pope John Paul II at his starting point for his pilgrimage to Israel, Jordan and the Palestinian Authority.
C. FitzSimons Allison	He is known for his participation in the controversial consecration in 2000 of two bishops opposed to the blessing of same-sex unions by the Episcopal Church USA, that took place in Singapore.
Frank Pavone	On May 18, 2012, the Congregation for the Clergy of the Vatican, after Father Pavone appealed his case to Rome, sent out a ruling in favor of Father Pavone's case.
Joseph B. Soloveitchik	In 1954 Soloveitchik issued a responsum on working with non-Orthodox Jews, Orthodox, Conservative and Reform Jews in the United States : Second article in a series on Responsa of Orthodox Judaism in the United States.
Eurosia Fabris	When Fabris was twelve years old she made her first Holy Communion, and received the Eucharist from then on as often as permitted, which was only on religious feast days, since daily communion was only permitted to most Catholics following a decree of Pope Pius X in 1905.
Giuseppe Leanza	The Minister for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Micheál Martin, T. D., met with Archbishop Giuseppe Leanza, on Tuesday 8 December 2009 to discuss the findings of the Dublin Archdiocese Commission of Investigation and the issue of the co-operation of the Nuncio and the Holy See with the Commission.
Rowan Williams	In November 2005, following a meeting of Anglicans of the'' global south'' in Cairo at which Williams had addressed them in conciliatory terms, 12 primates who had been present sent him a letter sharply criticising his leadership which said that'' We are troubled by your reluctance to use your moral authority to challenge the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.''
Archbishop Christodoulos of Athens	On May 20, 2001, Konstantinos Poulios (Κωνσταντίνος Πούλιος in Greek), an Old Calendarist, attacked Christodoulos and slapped him in the face, while the Archbishop was giving an interview to a TV crew outside the Metropolitan Cathedral of Athens.
Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia	Her murder by revolutionaries on 17 July 1918 resulted in her being named as a passion bearer by the Russian Orthodox Church.
Pope Francis	In May 2013, Francis unexpectedly participated in Italy's pro-life march in Rome, asking its participants to protect human life'' from the moment of conception.''
Charles Bigg	In 1900 he was invited by the Bishop of London, Mandell Creighton, to a round table conference that produced the org/details/thedoctrineofhol00waceuoft The Doctrine of Holy Communion and its Expression in Ritual in 1900.
Seymour Siegel	In 1967, when the debate about interfaith dialogue had reached new heights, with some rabbis taking the position that it might be appropriate for Christian and Jewish leaders to discuss issues of'' social justice,'' but not'' theology,'' Siegel once again took a strong position in favor of religious dialogue.
Filaret (Denysenko)	The bishops loyal to Metropolitan Filaret and a similar group from the Ukrainian Autocephalous Orthodox Church (another recently revived church in Ukraine) organized a unifying sobor which was held on June 25, 1992.
Raymond Roussin	Due to the declining Catholic population in the Diocese of Gravelbourg, Saskatchewan, Raymond Roussin was entrusted with dissolving the Diocese in 1995.
Alfred Xuereb	On 28 November 2013 Pope Fransic appointed Msgr. Xuereb as delegate for the Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Institute for the Works of Religion (IOR) and for the Pontifical Commission for Reference on the Organisation of the Economic-Administrative Structure of the Holy See, in order to exercise a supervisory role and to inform the Pope.
John Magee (bishop)	At a meeting of his liturgical advisers and diocesan clergy in November 2006, Bishop Magee spoke of his conversation with the Pope in the course of that ad limina visit at the end of the previous month.
Marcel Lefebvre	During the Council's third session (September to November 1964) Archbishop Pericle Felici announced that Lefebvre, with two other like-minded bishops, was appointed to a special four-member commission charged with rewriting the draft document on the topic, but it was soon discovered that this measure did not have papal approval, and major responsibility for preparing the draft document was given to the Secretariat for Promoting Christian Unity.
Thomas Thellusson Carter	When, in 1873, a controversial petition signed by 483 clergy requesting the provision of suitably qualified confessors was presented to the Convocation of Canterbury, he was one of those who drew up the Declaration on Confession and Absolution, as Set Forth by the Church of England in defence of private confession.
Philaret (Voznesensky)	In 1962, the Synod of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia was able to acquire an exit visa for archimandrite Philaret that allowed him to reach Hong Kong.
?lvaro del Portillo	On June 28, 2012, the Vatican announced that his life had been recognized as one of'' heroic virtue'' - a major step towards an eventual beatification.
Sebastian Gebhard Messmer	In 1921, he prohibited Catholic children in Milwaukee from participating in a Fourth of July Pilgrim pageant, which he described as'' exclusively a glorification of the Protestant Pilgrims,'' but later withdrew his objections.
Bernard Tissier de Mallerais	He was said to have incurred an automatic excommunication latae sententiae by the Roman Catholic Church because of his unauthorized consecration by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre on 30 June 1988, deemed by the Holy See to be'' unlawful'' and'' a schismatic act'', though some individuals doubt the validity of the excommunication.
Tom?s ? Fiaich	The first major event in Ó Fiaich's cardinalate was the first ever papal visit to Ireland after 1,400 years of Christianity from 29 September to 1 October 1979 by Pope John Paul II.
Mefodiy (Kudriakov)	In 2005, Metropolitan Mefodiy pursued a legal suit which successfully restored the patriarchal chancery offices and the Church of Saint Demetrius of Thessaloniki to the UAOC.
Anita Caspary	A'' cradle Catholic'' who took her vows in 1936 as Sister Humiliata in the Sisters of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, Caspary became increasingly infused with the spirit and reforms of the Second Vatican Council, which were mostly opposed by the Archbishop of Los Angeles, James Cardinal McIntyre.
Aloisius Joseph Muench	In the 1953 dedication of the North American College in Rome, Pius XII stopped as he passed by Muench, expressed his gratitude that Muench could join him in Rome, and added'' do n't forget to see me before you leave''.
Gerald Fitzgerald (priest)	In April 1962, Fitzgerald wrote a five-page response to a query from the Vatican's Congregation of the Holy Office about'' the tremendous problem presented by the priest who through lack of priestly self-discipline has become a problem to Mother Church.''