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• History of the Catholic Church in KoreaHistory

  The history of the Catholic Church in Korea traces the Korean Catholic Church from 1784, when Yi Seung-hun returned from Beijing after being baptized and founded a community of believers, through the era of persecution and the establishment of the Apostolic Vicariate of Korea.

• Seven SacramentsDoctrine & Theology

  The Seven Sacraments are the seven rites that the Catholic Church professes to be signs of grace instituted by Christ: Baptism, Confirmation, the Eucharist, Penance, the Anointing of the Sick, Holy Orders, and Matrimony. Most Protestants recognize only two sacraments, Baptism and the Lord's Supper.

• Doctor of the ChurchChurch Offices

  Doctor of the Church is a title the Catholic Church formally confers on saints who have made an outstanding contribution to teaching the faith and doctrine. Protestantism has no corresponding official office or title.

• Counter-ReformationHistory

  The Counter-Reformation was the movement of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in which the Roman Catholic Church responded to the Protestant Reformation and renewed itself from within. The Council of Trent and the work of the Jesuits were central to it.

• Particular ChurchOrganization & Polity

  A particular church is an individual local church that belongs to the whole church throughout the world, the universal church. The term is used chiefly in Presbyterian church constitutions. In Korean Protestant usage, the corresponding term can also refer to a branch congregation that a megachurch establishes in another area.

• Church in RomeHistory

  The church in Rome was the Christian community in Rome, the capital of the Roman Empire, during the first century. It was the church to which the apostle Paul addressed his Epistle to the Romans, and it appears to have consisted of several house congregations.

• History of the Anglican Church in KoreaHistory

  The history of the Anglican Church in Korea began in 1890, when Bishop Charles John Corfe of the Church of England arrived at Chemulpo. The church began as a diocese under the Church of England, received its first Korean bishop in 1965, and became an independent province, the Anglican Church of Korea, in 1993.

• Church RetreatChristian Life

  A church retreat is a gathering in which church members leave their daily routines and stay together for several days to focus on worship, prayer, Bible study, and fellowship. In Korean Protestant churches, retreats are usually held by individual church departments during school vacations.

• DonatismHistory

  A schismatic church movement that arose in North Africa in the early fourth century. Holding that sacraments administered by clergy who had abandoned the faith during persecution were without effect, it separated from the Catholic Church. Through its controversy with Augustine, it left a lasting mark on ecclesiology and sacramental theology.

• MassWorship & Rites

  The Mass is the public, Eucharist-centered worship of the Catholic Church. It consists of two parts: one in which the Scriptures are read and heard, and one in which bread and wine are shared.

• ProtestantismDenominations

  Protestantism is a major branch of Christianity that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the sixteenth-century Reformation. The term refers collectively to a number of denominations, including the Lutheran, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Holiness, and Pentecostal churches.

• World Council of ChurchesInstitutions

  The World Council of Churches (WCC) is an international fellowship of churches founded in 1948 in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. It is the leading representative of the ecumenical movement, which seeks the unity of the church across denominational lines, and its members include some 350 churches from the Protestant, Anglican, Orthodox, and other traditions.

• Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of JustificationHistory

  The Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification is a document signed on October 31, 1999, by the Lutheran World Federation and the Roman Catholic Church. It states that there is a "consensus in basic truths" on justification, the issue that had divided the two churches since the sixteenth-century Reformation.

• Byeongin PersecutionHistory

  The Byeongin Persecution was the mass arrest and execution of Catholics and French missionaries by the Joseon court that began in 1866, while the Heungseon Daewongun held power. It is regarded as the largest persecution in the history of the Catholic Church in Korea.

• BasilicaDoctrine & Theology

  A basilica is an architectural form with a long rectangular plan comprising a nave, aisles, and an apse. Originating in the public buildings of ancient Rome, it became the basic form of early church buildings. In the Catholic Church, the term is also used for a title that the pope confers on certain churches.

• Second Vatican CouncilHistory

  A council of the Catholic Church held at the Vatican in Rome from 1962 to 1965. Under the banner of church renewal and dialogue with the modern world, it approved the celebration of Mass in vernacular languages, dialogue with other Christians, and religious freedom, among other decisions.

• Council of TrentHistory

  The Council of Trent was a council of the Roman Catholic Church held from 1545 to 1563 in Trent (Trento) in northern Italy. In response to the Reformation, it defined Catholic doctrine and reformed the internal life of the Church.

• Sacrament of ConfessionWorship & Rites

  The sacrament of confession is a sacrament of the Catholic Church in which a believer confesses his or her sins to a priest and receives forgiveness through the priest's pronouncement of absolution. Most Protestant churches do not recognize it as a sacrament and instead emphasize repentance through confessing one's sins directly to God.

• First Vatican CouncilHistory

  The First Vatican Council was a council of the Catholic Church convened by Pope Pius IX at the Vatican in Rome in 1869–1870. It is best known for defining papal primacy and papal infallibility as dogma.