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  • An altar society or altar guild is a group of laypersons in a parish church who maintain the ceremonial objects used in worship. Traditionally, membership...
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  • The American Board of Catholic Missions was a Catholic missionary society organised by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. Organized at Cincinnati...
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  • A suffragan diocese is one of the dioceses other than the metropolitan archdiocese that constitute an ecclesiastical province. It exists in some Christian...
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  • Kappiya is a Buddhist lay manciple (attendant or steward) who resides in a monastery (vihāra) and assists Buddhist monks (bhikkhu in Pali). The term kappiya...
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  • The Abhidharmadīpa or Lamp of Abhidharma is an Abhidharma text thought to have been authored by Vasumitra as a response to Vasubandhu's Abhidharmakośakārikā...
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    The Province of York, or less formally the Northern Province, is one of two ecclesiastical provinces making up the Church of England and consists of 12...
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    13°3′18″N 80°15′18″E / 13.05500°N 80.25500°E / 13.05500; 80.25500 Thousand Lights is a multi-domed mosque in Anna Salai in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India...
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  • Pege was a town of ancient Thrace, inhabited during Byzantine times. Its site is located near Balıklı in European Turkey. Richard Talbert, ed. (2000)....
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  • Raghunatha Shiromani (Bengali: রঘুনাথ শিরোমণি, IAST: Raghunātha Śiromaṇi) (c. 1477–1547) was an Indian philosopher and logician. He was the head ( The...
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  • Ad Statuas was a settlement and station (mutatio) of ancient Thrace, inhabited during Byzantine times. Its site is located near İnceğiz [tr] in European...
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  • Eulepa (Εύλεπα) was an ancient Greek town in Cappadocia, inhabited in Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine times. Its site is located near Gölova, Asiatic...
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  • Kirkota was a town of ancient Cilicia inhabited during Byzantine times. Its name does not occur in ancient authors but is inferred from epigraphic and...
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  • Anzoulada was a town of ancient Lycaonia, inhabited in Byzantine times. The name does not occur among ancient authors but is inferred from epigraphic and...
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  • The Eighteen Lesser Texts, known as the Patiṉeṇkīḻkaṇakku (Tamil: பதினெண்கீழ்கணக்கு) in the literature, is a collection of eighteen poetic works mostly...
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    Risshū (律宗), also Ritsu school, is one of the six schools of Nara Buddhism in Japan, noted for its use of the Vinaya textual framework of the Dharmaguptaka...
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  • Pargais was a settlement and station (mutatio) of ancient Cilicia, on the road between Adana and Tarsus, inhabited during Byzantine times. Its site is...
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  • The Catholic Home Missions is an organization founded in 1924 by the American Board of Catholic Missions (ABCM) with the aim of helping and supporting...
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    Karnavedha (Sanskrit: कर्णवेध, Karṇavedha) or Karnavedham is one of the sixteen major samskaras (sacraments) known as "Shodasha Samskaras" of Hinduism...
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    Sogal is a place in Belgaum district, Karnataka, India. The name of the place is ascribed to a sage, Sugola Muni, who is believed to have lived in the...
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  • The Eretrian school of philosophy was originally the School of Elis, where it had been founded by Phaedo of Elis; it was later transferred to Eretria by...
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