Evidence

Source register

One register for the whole Atlas. Each source says whether it was actually read and which statements cite it. A source is marked verified only if it was opened and checked against the statements that cite it, never just because its link works.

Source verified
Read during the v0.2 or v0.3 build and checked against each statement citing it.
Identified, not independently read
A real, relevant work listed for human review. A statement resting only on such sources is never marked verified.
Statement statuses
Verified: 402 · Provisional: 129 · Contested: 5 · Awaiting verification: 1
Counts
135 sources, 114 verified and 21 identified only.

Sources read in this build

114

  1. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    1521 Excommunication of Luther: Complete Text

    Joshua J. Mark · 2021

    Joshua J. Mark, World History Encyclopedia, 15 December 2021, with the text of the bull, read in session: dated at St Peter's 'on the 3rd January 1521'; preceded by Exsurge Domine (1520); the theses posted 'at Wittenberg on 31 October 1517'.

    Cited by 1 statement

  2. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    2025 Service Year Report of Jehovah's Witnesses Worldwide: Grand Totals

    Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society · service year 1 Sept 2024 – 31 Aug 2025

    Peak publishers 9,205,326; average publishers 9,047,083; Memorial attendance 20,635,015.

    Cited by 2 statements

  3. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    2025 Statistical Report for the April 2026 General Conference

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints · April 2026

    Total membership 17,887,212 at 31 December 2025. The page does not define 'membership'.

    Cited by 1 statement

  4. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    28 Fundamental Beliefs

    General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

    Beliefs 1, 2, 15, 16, 18, 20, 24, 26 read in session.

    Cited by 19 statements

  5. News reportSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    500 years ago, Anabaptists showed the meaning of true evangelical faith

    John Longhurst · 2024

    John Longhurst, Anabaptist World, 27 December 2024; read in session: on 21 January 1525 Grebel baptised Blaurock, who 'proceeded to baptize the others'; 'The Anabaptist movement was born'; Zwingli had inspired Grebel and others to break from Catholicism 'and then from Zwingli, too'.

    Cited by 4 statements

  6. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    About us: When did it begin?

    Holy Apostolic Catholic Assyrian Church of the East

    The church's own account, read in session: tradition dates its founding to the mid-1st century; c. 310 Papa bar Gaggai took the title 'Catholicos of the East'; the synod of 410 approved the canons and creed of Nicaea; the church 'rejects any teaching' of two Sons in Christ. Gives no membership figure.

    Cited by 12 statements

  7. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Address of John Paul II to His Beatitude Christodoulos, Archbishop of Athens and All Greece

    Holy See · 4 May 2001

    Athens, 4 May 2001; read in session: the 'disastrous sack of the imperial city of Constantinople'; 'The fact that they were Latin Christians fills Catholics with deep regret'; he asks forgiveness for Catholic sins against the Orthodox.

    Cited by 2 statements

  8. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Anabaptists & Baptists

    BCW Project

    BCW Project (British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate 1638–60), read in session: Smyth's followers in Amsterdam (1609) 'baptised themselves'; they 'came under the influence of the Mennonites'; Helwys 'established a Baptist church at Spitalfields' (1612); Baptists later 'came to accept total immersion'.

    Cited by 2 statements

  9. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Anglican Orders: A Report on the Evolving Context for their Evaluation in the Roman Catholic Church

    Anglican–Roman Catholic Consultation in the USA · 8 May 1990

    On Apostolicae Curae (1896: Anglican orders 'absolutely null and utterly void'); ARCIC I's 'substantial agreement' on Eucharist and ministry (Final Report 1981); 1988 Lambeth Conference response; authority not fully agreed.

    Cited by 12 statements

  10. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Anglicanorum coetibus

    Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales · 2009

    Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales, item dated 4 November 2009, read in session: 'Personal Ordinariates for Anglicans entering into full communion with the Catholic Church', preserving 'elements of distinctive Anglican spiritual patrimony'.

    Cited by 2 statements

  11. News reportSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Anglicans grow by a million people each year (reporting David Goodhew in the Church Times)

    John Sandeman · Anglican Ink · 27 July 2025

    Goodhew's estimate of roughly 100 million Anglicans, extrapolated from World Christian Database figures to 2020; he calls it an undercount.

    Cited by 1 statement

  12. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Annex to the Official Common Statement (1999)

    Catholic Church and Lutheran World Federation · 1999

    EWTN reprint, read in session: 'the mutual condemnations of former times do not apply' to the teaching presented in the Joint Declaration; together Lutherans and Catholics 'can … understand the Christian as simul justus et peccator'.

    Cited by 1 statement

  13. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Armenian Apostolic Church (Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin) (member church profile)

    World Council of Churches

    Undated WCC profile, read in session: 'In 301, Christianity was proclaimed the official state religion'; faith based on 'the first three ecumenical councils'; 'one is the nature of the incarnate word'; 'does not accept the Council of Chalcedon (451)'; membership 8 023 000 (undated).

    Cited by 5 statements

  14. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Articles of Religion (1571)

    Church of England; in Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol. III

    Arts VI, VIII, XXI, XXII, XXV, XXVII, XXVIII read in session. Authority of the Articles varies between Anglican provinces.

    Cited by 9 statements

  15. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Baptist World Alliance (organisation profile)

    World Council of Churches

    211 member conventions/unions; 'a total membership of 35 million baptized believers'; 'a worshipping community of over 100 million'; Baptists do not count children as members. Undated profile.

    Cited by 1 statement

  16. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Basilios (Ethiopian patriarch)

    Encyclopaedia Britannica

    Britannica editors, updated 8 Oct 2026, read in session: on 14 January 1951 'the first Ethiopian bishop to be consecrated abuna'; in 1959 the church 'became an autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) body' with Basilios its first patriarch; earlier abunas were Egyptians appointed by the Coptic patriarch.

    Cited by 1 statement

  17. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Bilateral dialogue index (Eastern Orthodox–Oriental Orthodox; Pentecostal–Roman Catholic; Baptist–Mennonite)

    Centro Pro Unione, Rome · accessed 20 October 2026

    Used only for the dates, places and titles of dialogue meetings and reports.

    Cited by 9 statements

  18. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶1246–1255 (who can receive Baptism)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Read in session: ¶1250 on 'infant Baptism'.

    Cited by 1 statement

  19. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶1376–1378 (transubstantiation)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    USCCB edition, read in session: ¶1376 the change is 'fittingly and properly called transubstantiation'.

    Cited by 4 statements

  20. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶1577–1580 (who can receive Holy Orders)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Read in session: ¶1579 Latin-Church ministers 'normally chosen from among men of faith who live a celibate life'; ¶1580 in the Eastern Churches 'bishops are chosen solely from among celibates', while married men may be ordained deacons and priests.

    Cited by 4 statements

  21. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶1987–1995 (justification)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Read in session: ¶1989 justification 'is not only the remission of sins, but also the sanctification and renewal of the interior man'; ¶1991 through faith; ¶1992 conferred in Baptism; ¶1993 grace and freedom cooperate.

    Cited by 1 statement

  22. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶2174–2188 (the Lord's Day)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Read in session: ¶2174 'the Lord's Day'; ¶2177 'the foremost holy day of obligation in the universal Church'.

    Cited by 3 statements

  23. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶246–248 (the Filioque)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    USCCB edition, read in session: ¶246 the Spirit 'proceeds from the Father and the Son (filioque)'.

    Cited by 3 statements

  24. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶80–83 (Scripture and Tradition)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Read in session: ¶80 'bound closely together'; ¶82 both 'must be accepted and honoured'.

    Cited by 4 statements

  25. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶84–95 (the Magisterium)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Read in session: ¶85 interpretation 'entrusted to the living teaching office of the Church alone', to 'the bishops in communion with the successor of Peter'; ¶95 'one of them cannot stand without the others'.

    Cited by 5 statements

  26. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶871–945 (the hierarchical constitution of the Church)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Read in session: ¶880 bishops 'the successors of the apostles'; ¶882 the Pope's 'full, supreme, and universal power over the whole Church'; ¶884 ecumenical councils; ¶891 infallibility 'in virtue of his office'.

    Cited by 12 statements

  27. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶946–962 (the communion of saints)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Read in session: ¶956 the saints 'do not cease to intercede with the Father for us'.

    Cited by 2 statements

  28. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶¶963–975 (Mary, Mother of Christ, Mother of the Church)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Read in session: ¶963 'truly the Mother of God'; ¶969 her 'manifold intercession'; ¶971 devotion 'intrinsic to Christian worship'.

    Cited by 5 statements

  29. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶1113 (the seven sacraments)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Read in session: 'There are seven sacraments in the Church: Baptism, Confirmation or Chrismation, Eucharist, Penance, …'.

    Cited by 6 statements

  30. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Catechism of the Catholic Church, ¶253 (one God in three persons)

    Catholic Church · Libreria Editrice Vaticana · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Holy See concordance page quoting ¶253: 'We do not confess three Gods, but one God in three persons'.

    Cited by 2 statements

  31. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Chicago–Lambeth Quadrilateral

    Lambeth Conference · 1888

    Anglican Communion text read in session: formulated at Chicago in 1886, adopted by the Lambeth Conference in 1888; Scriptures 'containing all things necessary to salvation'; the Nicene Creed 'the sufficient statement of the Christian faith'; Baptism and the Supper of the Lord; the Historic Episcopate 'locally adapted'.

    Cited by 4 statements

  32. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Church of England and Methodist Church recommit to working together as Covenant turns 21

    Church of England

    Covenant signed 1 November 2003; commits the churches to 'removing further obstacles towards unity'.

    Cited by 4 statements

  33. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Circular from Joseph Bradford and Thomas Coke 'To the Members of the Methodist Society' (Plan of Pacification)

    SOAS University of London · 6 August 1795

    SOAS archive catalogue record (Methodist Missionary Society papers), dated 6 August 1795, describing a 'Plan of Pacification for conducting the sacrament and appointing preachers'. The circular itself (microfiche) was not read.

    Cited by 1 statement

  34. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East

    Pope John Paul II; Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV · 11 November 1994

    Read in session. Common confession of Christ, true God and true man; both Marian expressions ('Mother of Christ our God and Saviour'; 'Mother of God') recognised as legitimate expressions of the same faith; Eucharist not yet celebrated together; Mixed Committee established.

    Cited by 17 statements

  35. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Common Declaration of Pope Francis and Pope Tawadros II

    Holy See Press Office · 28 April 2017

    Signed in Cairo, 28 April 2017; read in session: both 'will seek sincerely not to repeat the baptism that has been administered in either of our Churches'; they look to 'the blessed day when we will at last gather at the same Eucharistic table'.

    Cited by 2 statements

  36. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Common Declaration of Pope Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III

    Holy See; Coptic Orthodox Church · 10 May 1973

    Read in session. Common confession of Christ 'perfect God with respect to His divinity, perfect man with respect to His humanity'; seven sacraments named; differences since 451 'cannot be ignored'; joint commission established.

    Cited by 17 statements

  37. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Common Statement on 'Sacramental Life'

    Joint Committee for Theological Dialogue (Catholic Church – Assyrian Church of the East) · 24 November 2017

    Joint Committee for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East; signed 24 November 2017 by Cardinal Kurt Koch and Mar Meelis. Read in session: the Assyrian Church's official list of sacraments (adopted 2001) follows Mar Abdisho and includes the Sign of the Cross and the Holy Leaven; ordained ministers 'should stand in the apostolic succession'; full communion not yet restored and concelebration not permitted (n. 28); the next phase concerns the constitution of the Church.

    Cited by 11 statements

  38. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Definition of the Council of Chalcedon (451)

    451

    English translation (translator not named) read in session: Christ acknowledged 'in two natures', without confusion, change, division or separation.

    Cited by 4 statements

  39. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Ethiopia: Ethnic groups ... (ETH200541.E)

    Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Research Directorate · 4 October 2022

    Cites the 2007 Ethiopian census: 32,092,182 self-identified Orthodox Christians.

    Cited by 1 statement

  40. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church (member church profile)

    World Council of Churches

    Undated WCC profile (English text), read in session: Frumentius consecrated by Athanasius; 'Since 1950 the Ethiopian Orthodox Church has been autocephalous'; follows 'the One-person, One-nature doctrine of St Cyril'; membership 60,000,000 (undated, method not stated).

    Cited by 7 statements

  41. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Formula of Concord (Epitome and Solid Declaration), in the Book of Concord (1580)

    1577

    Concordia Publishing House text read in session: Scripture 'the only rule and norm according to which all teachings' are judged; creeds and other writings are 'witnesses'.

    Cited by 5 statements

  42. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Formula of Concord Study: Article VII

    Michael Schuermann · Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod · 15 December 2016

    Describes Article VII as teaching the 'sacramental union in, with, and under' the bread and wine.

    Cited by 4 statements

  43. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Global Christianity: Movements and Denominations

    Pew Research Center (analysis of Center for the Study of Global Christianity data) · 19 December 2011

    2010 estimates: about 279 million Pentecostals (members of Pentecostal denominations) and 305 million charismatics (in other denominations), 584 million combined.

    Cited by 1 statement

  44. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Gospel Topics: Godhead

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    'Three separate beings'; Father and Son have bodies of flesh and bones; Holy Ghost a personage of spirit.

    Cited by 9 statements

  45. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Guidelines for Admission to the Eucharist between the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East

    Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, with the CDF and the Congregation for the Oriental Churches · 20 July 2001

    Read via EWTN's reproduction of L'Osservatore Romano (31 Oct 2001). The Anaphora of Addai and Mari 'can be considered valid'; mutual admission to the Eucharist in cases of necessity between Chaldean and Assyrian faithful.

    Cited by 14 statements

  46. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    History of the Assemblies of God

    Assemblies of God (USA)

    Read in session: Parham's students 'began speaking in tongues at a prayer meeting on January 1, 1901'; the Azusa Street revival from 1906 under Seymour, 'a mild-mannered African-American Holiness preacher'; the Assemblies of God founded at Hot Springs, 2–12 April 1914.

    Cited by 5 statements

  47. ScholarshipSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    History of the Christian Church, vol. 8, ch. III: The Reformation in Zurich, 1519–1526

    Philip Schaff

    Philip Schaff (CCEL text), read in session: Zwingli 'began his duties in Zurich on his thirty-sixth birthday (Jan. 1, 1519)' with expository preaching on Matthew.

    Cited by 1 statement

  48. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    History of the Church of Greece in the 20th century

    Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece

    Apostoliki Diakonia of the Church of Greece; article by Archim. Grigorios D. Papathomas; read in session: the 1833 autocephaly was 'arbitrarily declared by King Otto', a 'non canonical Autocephaly'; the Patriarchal and Synodal Tome of 29 June 1850; the New Calendar adopted in March 1924; the 1928 act on the New Territories; Crete's semi-autonomy.

    Cited by 4 statements

  49. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    History of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe

    Community of Protestant Churches in Europe (CPCE) · accessed 20 October 2026

    Leuenberg Agreement adopted 1973 near Basel; pulpit and table fellowship; 96 member churches.

    Cited by 7 statements

  50. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    History of the Porvoo Communion

    Porvoo Communion · accessed 20 October 2026

    Declaration signed in services at Trondheim (1 Sept 1996), Tallinn (8 Sept 1996) and Westminster Abbey (28 Nov 1996).

    Cited by 6 statements

  51. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    How many Christians are there in Egypt?

    Pew Research Center · 16 February 2011

    1996 census 5.7% Christian; 2008 DHS survey about 5%; Pew's estimate about 4 million; media and church figures of 10% or more; possible undercount discussed.

    Cited by 1 statement

  52. ScholarshipSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    In the Hope of Restoration of Communion between the Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox Churches

    Carrie Frederick Frost, Vigen Guroian, Jennifer Haddad Mosher, Valerie Zahirsky · Published on orthodoxcouncil.org (Ecumenical Patriarchate press office site) · c. 2016

    Signed opinion piece, not an official decision. States that only some churches had accepted the agreed statements (Orthodox: Alexandria, Antioch, Romania; Oriental Orthodox: Alexandria, Antioch, Malankara) and that communion was not restored.

    Cited by 6 statements

  53. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    International Catholic–Pentecostal Dialogue (phases and reports)

    Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity; Centro Pro Unione index

    Dialogue since 1972 in seven phases; used only for dates and report titles. Participants on the Pentecostal side are individual Pentecostal churches and leaders, not the movement as a whole.

    Cited by 2 statements

  54. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Jehovah Gathers and Equips His People for Work (Jehovah's Witnesses—Unitedly Doing God's Will Worldwide)

    Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

    Read in session: Russell's nondenominational Bible study in the early 1870s in 'Allegheny (Pittsburgh), Pennsylvania'; 'In 1931 the Bible Students adopted the name Jehovah's Witnesses'.

    Cited by 3 statements

  55. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Joint Catholic–Orthodox Declaration of His Holiness Pope Paul VI and the Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I

    Holy See; Ecumenical Patriarchate · 7 December 1965

    Read in session. ¶2 names Cardinal Humbert's legation and Patriarch Michael Cerularius; ¶4 removes the 1054 sentences 'from memory'; ¶5 states the gesture is not sufficient to end the differences and hopes for full communion.

    Cited by 23 statements

  56. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

    Lutheran World Federation; Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity · 31 October 1999 (signed at Augsburg)

    §§40–43 read in session via the IntraText edition (vatican.va did not respond to the fetch). §40: 'consensus in basic truths'; remaining differences of language, elaboration and emphasis. §41: the 16th-century condemnations, in so far as they relate to justification, do not apply. §43: open questions include the Word of God and church doctrine, ecclesiology, authority, unity, ministry, sacraments and social ethics.

    Cited by 13 statements

  57. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JDDJ)

    Lutheran World Federation · accessed 20 October 2026

    Later associations: World Methodist Council (July 2006, Seoul), Anglican Consultative Council (April 2016, Lusaka; presented October 2017), World Communion of Reformed Churches (July 2017, Wittenberg). Also states the LWF represents over 78 million Christians in 99 countries.

    Cited by 4 statements

  58. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Jonas (metropolitan of Moscow)

    Encyclopaedia Britannica

    Read in session: in 1448 'the council of Russian bishops elected Jonas as metropolitan, without Byzantine consent', after Isidore, who had accepted Florence (1439), was removed; the Russian Church thereby declared itself autocephalous.

    Cited by 7 statements

  59. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Joseph Smith and the Restoration

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    Read in session: the Church was 'formally organized … in a log cabin at Fayette, New York, on 6 April 1830'; authority 'was lost in the ancient church … and required a restoration'.

    Cited by 8 statements

  60. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Letter of Cardinal Kasper and Dr Noko on the fifth anniversary of the Joint Declaration

    Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Lutheran World Federation · 6 February 2004

    Confirms the Official Common Statement confirmed the JDDJ; calls it a milestone, not the final goal; 'substantial further work still remains to be done'.

    Cited by 5 statements

  61. News reportSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Lutherans gathered in Germany have asked for forgiveness for the 16th-century persecution of Anabaptists

    Religion News Service · 23 July 2010

    LWF Assembly, Stuttgart; joint service of repentance; MWC general secretary's response.

    Cited by 4 statements

  62. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Member Churches

    Anglican Communion Office · accessed 20 October 2026

    42 autonomous member churches and five extra-provincial areas; 'tens of millions of people' in more than 165 countries. No total membership figure given.

    Cited by 2 statements

  63. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Membership, map and statistics

    Mennonite World Conference

    '2.03 million baptized believers in 87 countries' (census year not stated).

    Cited by 1 statement

  64. News reportSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    New attack by Moscow Patriarch Kirill on Ecumenical Patriarch, with Lavrov by his side

    Orthodox Times · 23 April 2026

    Published 23 April 2026; read in session: Patriarch Kirill described the Phanar's action in Ukraine as 'contributing to a prolonged crisis in inter-Orthodox relations'. No restoration of communion is reported.

    Cited by 2 statements

  65. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    New data from Annuario Pontificio 2026 shows Catholics growing

    Vatican News (reporting the Annuario Pontificio 2026 and Annuarium Statisticum Ecclesiae) · 28 March 2026

    'In 2024, the Catholic population stood at just over 1.422 billion' (baptised Catholics, end of 2024).

    Cited by 2 statements

  66. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Oriental Orthodox Churches (church family profile)

    World Council of Churches · 2002

    From the Dictionary of the Ecumenical Movement (WCC and Eerdmans, revised edition 2002), read in session: the Coptic, Syrian, Armenian, Ethiopian, Eritrean and Malankara churches; 'The six churches are in communion'; they accept the first three councils and 'do not accept the fourth, Chalcedon'; with the Eastern Orthodox 'communion has not yet been achieved'.

    Cited by 12 statements

  67. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Orthodox Christianity in the 21st Century; Key takeaways about Orthodox Christians

    Pew Research Center · 8 November 2017

    'Nearly 260 million' Orthodox worldwide, a total that includes Oriental Orthodox churches (about 20%); Russia 101 million Orthodox (self-identified); Ethiopia 36 million. Population figures footnoted as 2010-based.

    Cited by 3 statements

  68. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Orthodox Church leadership structure explained

    Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate · 2026

    Archons of the Ecumenical Patriarchate (a lay order supporting the Patriarchate), 18 June 2026; read in session: each autocephalous church is 'fully independent and elects its own primate' and governed by its Holy Synod; 'no single bishop with universal jurisdiction'; the Ecumenical Patriarch's is 'a primacy of honor and coordination'. Its perspective is that of Constantinople.

    Cited by 8 statements

  69. News reportSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Orthodoxy at the start of 2026: key challenges ahead

    Orthodox Times (republishing Orthodoxi Alitheia) · 3 January 2026

    Commentary confirming that, at the start of 2026, Patriarch Kirill had broken communion with Patriarch Bartholomew and the rift was unresolved.

    Cited by 6 statements

  70. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Our History

    Seventh-day Adventist Church

    Seventh-day Adventist Church, read in session: William Miller, 'a devout Baptist'; 22 October 1844 'The Great Disappointment'; name 'Seventh-day Adventists' agreed on 1 October 1860; General Conference formed in May 1863.

    Cited by 7 statements

  71. News reportSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Patriarch Kirill stopped commemorating Archbishop of Greece on Sunday

    OrthoChristian.com · 20 November 2019

    Reports that Patriarch Kirill ceased commemorating Archbishop Ieronymos of Athens after the latter entered communion with the head of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine (late October 2019).

    Cited by 5 statements

  72. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Pentecostalism (Encyclopedia of Religion and Society)

    David Yamane · Hartford Institute for Religion Research

    David Yamane, Hartford Institute for Religion Research; read in session: the movement 'germinated from … nineteenth-century American revivalism, specifically the Holiness movement in Methodism'; the Holiness 'second blessing'; origin traced to Charles Parham at Topeka (1901); Seymour, a Black Holiness preacher, and the Azusa Street Mission.

    Cited by 3 statements

  73. ScholarshipSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Preparatory Paper: The Separation from the Church of England

    Nigel Waterfield · 1982

    Seventh Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological Studies, July 1982; read in session: under the Plan of Pacification Holy Communion 'was only to be administered by persons authorized by Conference'; 'No precise date can of course be given for the separation'.

    Cited by 1 statement

  74. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Reformed Churches (New Catholic Encyclopedia and other reference articles)

    Encyclopedia.com (New Catholic Encyclopedia)

    Read in session: Calvin 'had his own church firmly established at Geneva by 1536'; 'In Scotland the Reformed faith, known as Presbyterianism, was established by John Knox in 1560'; authority given 'to elders through a series of graded ecclesiastical assemblies'. Notes Zwingli's programme was active in Zurich by 1516.

    Cited by 2 statements

  75. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Response to a dubium on the validity of baptism conferred by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith · 5 June 2001

    Response: 'Negative'. The page gives no reasoning; the Atlas does not attribute one to it.

    Cited by 2 statements

  76. News reportSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Russian Orthodox break communion with Ecumenical Patriarch

    Vatican News · 16 October 2018

    Reports the Holy Synod declaration of 15 October 2018 (Minsk): Eucharistic communion with the Patriarchate of Constantinople ended; clergy may not concelebrate, laity may not receive its sacraments, until Constantinople reverses its decisions.

    Cited by 16 statements

  77. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Second Agreed Statement and Recommendations to the Churches

    Joint Commission of the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches · 23–28 September 1990, Chambésy

    Read in session. Both families condemn the Eutychian and Nestorian heresies; both accept the first three ecumenical councils as common heritage; recommends that anathemas 'should be lifted by the Churches', the manner to be decided by each church.

    Cited by 47 statements

  78. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Seventh-day Adventist Church World Statistics for 2025 (2026 Annual Statistical Report, advance release)

    General Conference Office of Archives, Statistics, and Research (adventistatlas.org)

    'At the end of 2025 the church reported 24,372,139 members worldwide.' Membership definition not stated on the page. v0.3: this link opens the statistics site home page; the specific 2026 report page was not re-located in this session.

    Cited by 1 statement

  79. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Shared Convictions

    Mennonite World Conference · adopted 15 March 2006

    Items 1 (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), 3 (baptism upon confession of faith), 4 (interpreting Scripture together), 5 (peacemakers who renounce violence), 6 (Lord's Supper).

    Cited by 16 statements

  80. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Statement of Fundamental Truths

    Assemblies of God (USA)

    Truths 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 12 read in session. One classical Pentecostal denomination; Pentecostal teaching is not uniform (e.g. Oneness Pentecostals reject the doctrine of the Trinity).

    Cited by 9 statements

  81. News reportSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The 23 Eastern Catholic Churches: ancient traditions in communion with Rome

    Victoria Cardiel · EWTN News / Catholic World Report · 20 September 2026

    24 churches sui iuris (Latin + 23 Eastern); five liturgical traditions (Alexandrian, Antiochene, Armenian, Chaldean, Byzantine); Maronites and Italo-Albanians described as never having broken communion; union dates for several churches. Journalistic source; corroborate against CCEO and the Annuario Pontificio.

    Cited by 21 statements

  82. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Armenian Apostolic Church

    Ronald G. Roberson · Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA)

    Last modified 26 Oct 2021; read in session: Gregory the Illuminator converted King Tiridates III early in the 4th century; an Armenian synod in 506 rejected Chalcedon's Christology; Cilicia 'is in full communion with the Catholicosate of Etchmiadzin but is administratively independent'; about 5,000,000 faithful (Etchmiadzin) and 800,000 (Cilicia), 6,000,000 overall; 92% of Armenia's population identified with the church in the 2011 census.

    Cited by 5 statements

  83. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Articles of Faith

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    Articles 1, 4, 6, 8, 9 read in session.

    Cited by 8 statements

  84. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Articles of Religion of the Methodist Church

    The United Methodist Church

    Arts I, V, XVI, XVII, XVIII read in session. One Methodist church's standard; other Methodist churches have their own.

    Cited by 7 statements

  85. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Augsburg Confession (1530)

    In Philip Schaff, The Creeds of Christendom, vol. III

    Arts IV (justified 'for Christ's sake through faith'), IX (children to be baptised), X (body and blood 'truly present'), XXI (saints remembered, not invoked) read in session.

    Cited by 22 statements

  86. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Autocephalous Churches

    Ronald G. Roberson · Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA)

    Last modified 26 Oct 2021; read in session: 'fourteen Orthodox churches that are generally accepted as "autocephalous"'; 'they all remain in full sacramental and canonical communion with one another' (written before 2018).

    Cited by 6 statements

  87. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Baptist Faith and Message 2000

    Southern Baptist Convention

    One convention's confession, not binding on other Baptists. Arts I, II, VI, VII, XVII read in session.

    Cited by 23 statements

  88. ScholarshipSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Baptist Story

    Doug Weaver · 2008

    Doug Weaver, Baylor Magazine, 24 November 2008; read in session: Smyth 'organized the first Baptist church in 1609' in Amsterdam; Helwys returned to England in 1612 and founded the first Baptist church on English soil; Smyth wished to receive baptism from the Mennonites and Helwys 'strongly opposed' this.

    Cited by 6 statements

  89. ScholarshipSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Christology of the Church of the East in the Synods of the Fifth to Early Seventh Centuries: Preliminary Considerations and Materials

    Sebastian Brock · In G. Dragas (ed.), Aksum-Thyateira: A Festschrift for Archbishop Methodios (London: Thyateira House) · 1985 · pp. 126–143

    Read in session. The 410 synod recognised Nicaea; no credal statements in 420 and 424; the 486 statement is Antiochene and 'can in no way be described as openly Nestorian'; East Syriac texts never use 'two prosopa'; qnoma is not equivalent to 'person'; Ephesus is specifically rejected, Chalcedon received ambivalently.

    Cited by 18 statements

  90. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Coptic Orthodox Church

    Ronald G. Roberson · Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA)

    Last modified 26 Oct 2021; read in session: Chalcedon 'rejected by the great majority of the Egyptian hierarchy and faithful'; the 1973 Common Declaration; the 2017 commitment not to repeat baptism; membership 9,000,000 with no source given.

    Cited by 5 statements

  91. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Eastern Catholic Churches 2017 (statistics)

    Ronald G. Roberson, CSP · CNEWA, from the Annuario Pontificio 2017

    Church-by-church figures; the listed figures sum to about 17.8 million. Largest: Ukrainian (4.47m), Syro-Malabar (4.25m), Maronite (3.50m), Melkite (1.57m).

    Cited by 1 statement

  92. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Ethiopian Orthodox Bible: a unique biblical canon

    Mahibere Kidusan USA

    Mahibere Kidusan USA (the EOTC Sunday School Department's US centre); read in session: 'the largest biblical canon with 81 books, including texts like the Book of Enoch and the Book of Jubilees'.

    Cited by 1 statement

  93. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church

    Ronald G. Roberson · Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA)

    Last modified 26 Oct 2021; read in session: 'all bishops in Ethiopia were Egyptian Copts appointed by the Coptic Patriarchate'; the 1948 agreement provided for an Ethiopian metropolitan; Basilios elected in 1951; in 1959 'the Coptic Patriarchate confirmed Metropolitan Basilios as the first Patriarch'; infobox 36,000,000; rejects Chalcedon's two natures; keeps circumcision, dietary laws and both Saturday and Sunday sabbath.

    Cited by 7 statements

  94. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Filioque: A Church-Dividing Issue? An Agreed Statement

    North American Orthodox–Catholic Theological Consultation · 25 October 2003

    Read in session (ecumenism.net copy; also published by the USCCB). A regional consultation statement, not an act of either church. Section II gives the history from Toledo (589) to Florence (1439) and states that Leo IX was already dead in July 1054 and that the exchange 'did not lead, by itself, to a formal schism'.

    Cited by 28 statements

  95. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Heidelberg Catechism

    1563

    CCEL text read in session: Q&A 21 forgiveness 'merely of grace, only for the sake of Christ's merits'; Q&A 60 righteous 'only by a true faith in Jesus Christ'; Q&A 74 infants 'by baptism, as a sign of the covenant' admitted into the church.

    Cited by 3 statements

  96. ScholarshipSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Issue Involved in the Lutheran Rejection of Consubstantiation

    J. T. Mueller · Concordia Theological Monthly 21 · August 1950 · pp. 602–606

    Explains why Lutherans have generally rejected the term 'consubstantiation' while affirming the Real Presence.

    Cited by 3 statements

  97. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Marburg Colloquy: The Marburg Articles (1529)

    German Historical Institute Washington · 1529

    Read in session: signed at Marburg on 3 October 1529 by ten signatories including Luther and Zwingli; Article 15 records that they had not agreed 'whether the true body and blood of Christ are corporally present in the bread and wine'.

    Cited by 3 statements

  98. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Methodist Church in America Asserts its Independence: The Christmas Conference of 1784

    Ashbrook Center, Ashland University

    Religion in America History Program (Ashbrook Center), 2019; read in session: the conference at Lovely Lane Chapel, Baltimore, 24 December 1784 – 2 January 1785, formed the Methodist Episcopal Church; 'Wesley wanted to keep Methodism a movement within the Church of England'.

    Cited by 1 statement

  99. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Orthodox Church of Greece

    Ronald G. Roberson · Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA)

    From The Eastern Christian Churches; last modified 19 Aug 2026; read in session: 'in 1833 the government declared the Church of Greece to be autocephalous'; Constantinople 'issued a Patriarchal Tomos that recognized the autocephaly' (1850); Crete and the Dodecanese belong to the Ecumenical Patriarchate; infobox membership 10,000,000; 'some 97% of the population of Greece today self-identifies as Orthodox', the real figure probably lower.

    Cited by 4 statements

  100. Reference workSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Orthodox Church of Russia

    Ronald G. Roberson · Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA)

    Last modified 25 Feb 2025; read in session: baptisms in the Dnieper in 988; Job enthroned first Patriarch of Moscow 'by Ecumenical Patriarch Jeremiah in 1589'; patriarchate abolished 1721, restored 1917; Moscow severed communion with Constantinople four days after 11 October 2018; total membership 164,100,000 (WCC breakdown, early 2021, including 30,000,000 in Ukraine).

    Cited by 13 statements

  101. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Orthodox Faith: Sacraments

    Orthodox Church in America · accessed 20 October 2026

    Names baptism, chrismation, Holy Communion, confession, unction and matrimony as mysteries; does not fix the number. Used only for that.

    Cited by 2 statements

  102. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Question of the Validity of Baptism Conferred in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    Luis F. Ladaria · 1 August 2001

    By Luis Ladaria SJ, L'Osservatore Romano (weekly English edition), 1 August 2001, p. 4; EWTN reprint read in session: 'There is not a true invocation of the Trinity', since Latter-day Saint teaching speaks of 'three gods who form one divinity'; the two baptisms 'differ essentially'.

    Cited by 5 statements

  103. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Reformation (Living Heritage)

    UK Parliament

    UK Parliament Living Heritage, read in session: the 1534 Act 'declared the King supreme head of the English Church in place of the Pope'; the 1549 Act of Uniformity established a Book of Common Prayer; Mary I's 'brief return to Catholicism'; in 1559 a new Act of Uniformity enforced 'a modified prayer book'.

    Cited by 4 statements

  104. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Sacraments (The Orthodox Faith, vol. II)

    Orthodox Church in America

    Orthodox Church in America; read in session: 'Usually seven sacraments are counted', a count 'adopted in the Orthodox Church from the Roman Catholics'; the older view treats 'everything which is in and of the Church as sacramental or mystical'.

    Cited by 1 statement

  105. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Schleitheim Confession (Brotherly Union)

    1527

    GHDI translation read in session (see also schleitheim-1527): baptism only for those who have 'learned repentance and amendment of life'; the sword 'outside the perfection of Christ'.

    Cited by 6 statements

  106. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Triumph of Orthodoxy – Why Icons?

    Michael Danczak · Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA

    Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA; V. Rev. Michael Danczak; read in session: the decree restoring icons 'was brought into full force in the city of Constantinople' in 843, commemorated in Lent as the Sunday of Orthodoxy.

    Cited by 1 statement

  107. Primary textSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    The Westminster Confession of Faith

    Orthodox Presbyterian Church (text)

    Chs 1, 3, 27–31 read in session. A defining standard for Presbyterian churches; Continental Reformed churches use other confessions (e.g. Heidelberg Catechism).

    Cited by 16 statements

  108. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    To the attention of pilgrims from the Russian Orthodox Church

    Diocese of Sourozh (Russian Orthodox Church), relaying the Pilgrimage Centre of the Moscow Patriarchate · 12 September 2023

    Lists the bases of the restrictions: Holy Synod decisions of 15 Oct 2018 (Constantinople), 17 Oct 2019, Journal No. 125 (21 named metropolises of the Church of Greece), 26 Dec 2019 (named hierarchs of Alexandria) and 16 Mar 2023 (five dioceses of Cyprus). Restrictions apply to named dioceses and hierarchs, not to the whole Church of Greece.

    Cited by 7 statements

  109. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Tradition (The Orthodox Faith, vol. I)

    Orthodox Church in America

    Orthodox Church in America catechetical text, read in session: 'Among the elements which make up the Holy Tradition of the Church, the Bible holds the first place', followed by liturgy, councils, Fathers, saints, canons and icons.

    Cited by 4 statements

  110. Agreed ecumenical statementSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Uniatism, method of union of the past, and the present search for full communion (Balamand)

    Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity · 23 June 1993

    Joint International Commission for Theological Dialogue between the Catholic Church and the Orthodox Church, Balamand, 23 June 1993; read in session: ¶2 'we reject it as method for the search for unity'; ¶12 it 'can no longer be accepted either as a method to be followed'.

    Cited by 1 statement

  111. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    What Do Jehovah's Witnesses Believe?

    Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society (jw.org)

    Jehovah 'the one true and Almighty God'; Jesus 'is not Almighty God'; 'no Scriptural basis for the Trinity doctrine'; elders 'do not form a clergy class'; Governing Body provides direction; 'we are Christians'.

    Cited by 16 statements

  112. Official church sourceSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    Why Armenians celebrate Christmas on January 6th

    Armenian Prelacy (Arak29 Charitable Foundation) · 2021

    Arak29 Charitable Foundation material published by the Armenian Prelacy (2021); read in session: the Church 'celebrates the Birth of Christ on January 6', together with Theophany and the Baptism of Christ.

    Cited by 1 statement

  113. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    World Communion of Reformed Churches (church family profile)

    World Council of Churches

    '80 million Reformed Christians'; 230 member churches in 108 countries. Undated profile; counting methods vary by member church.

    Cited by 1 statement

  114. StatisticsSource verified · checked 2026-10-20

    World Methodist Council (organisation profile)

    World Council of Churches

    '76 member churches representing 40 million believers'. Undated; other published figures for the Methodist family are higher.

    Cited by 1 statement

Identified, not yet read

21

  1. ScholarshipIdentified, not independently read

    A Brief History of Seventh-day Adventists

    George R. Knight · Review and Herald · 1999

    Not read in session.

    Cited by 2 statements

  2. Primary textIdentified, not independently read

    Anglicanorum coetibus (Apostolic Constitution on Personal Ordinariates)

    Pope Benedict XVI · 4 November 2009

    Not read in session.

    Cited by 1 statement

  3. Agreed ecumenical statementIdentified, not independently read

    Baptist–Mennonite Theological Conversations (1989–1992): final report

    Baptist World Alliance; Mennonite World Conference · August 1992

    Meetings 1989–1992 and the August 1992 final report verified from the Pro Unione index; the report itself was not read.

    Cited by 2 statements

  4. ScholarshipIdentified, not independently read

    Byzantium and the Rise of Russia

    John Meyendorff · Cambridge University Press · 1981

    Listed in v0.1 for the Russian Church's relations with Constantinople to the 15th century. Not read.

    Cited by 4 statements

  5. Agreed ecumenical statementIdentified, not independently read

    Called Together to be Peacemakers: Report of the International Dialogue between the Catholic Church and Mennonite World Conference, 1998–2003

    Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Mennonite World Conference

    Existence confirmed from the official dialogue page title; not read.

    Cited by 3 statements

  6. Official church sourceIdentified, not independently read

    Catechism of the Catholic Church

    Holy See · 1992; 2nd ed. 1997

    Table of contents opened in session (includes 'The Seven Sacraments of the Church', 'The Transmission of Divine Revelation', 'Grace and Justification'); paragraphs were not read. Treated as identified.

    Cited by 1 statement

  7. ScholarshipIdentified, not independently read

    Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years

    Diarmaid MacCulloch · Allen Lane · 2009

    Gemini SRC-15. General history; identified for human review of Reformation-era claims. Not read.

    Cited by 18 statements

  8. Primary textIdentified, not independently read

    Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches (CCEO)

    Holy See · 1990 · cc. 27–28 (church sui iuris; rite)

    Canonical definition of church sui iuris and rite. Not read in session.

    Cited by 12 statements

  9. ScholarshipIdentified, not independently read

    East and West: The Making of a Rift in the Church, from Apostolic Times until the Council of Florence

    Henry Chadwick · Oxford University Press · 2003

    Standard scholarly account of the gradual estrangement. Identified for human review; not read in session.

    Cited by 6 statements

  10. Agreed ecumenical statementIdentified, not independently read

    First Agreed Statement (Christology)

    Joint Commission of the Theological Dialogue between the Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches · 20–24 June 1989, Anba Bishoy Monastery, Egypt

    Date, place and title verified from the Pro Unione dialogue index; the text itself was not read in session.

    Cited by 1 statement

  11. ScholarshipIdentified, not independently read

    Imperial Unity and Christian Divisions: The Church 450–680 A.D.

    John Meyendorff · St Vladimir's Seminary Press · 1989

    Listed in the Gemini bibliography (SRC-04). Identified, not read.

    Cited by 4 statements

  12. Agreed ecumenical statementIdentified, not independently read

    Official Common Statement and Annex to the Joint Declaration

    Lutheran World Federation; Catholic Church · 1999

    Could not be fetched in session (vatican.va error). Its existence and confirming role are attested by the 2004 Kasper–Noko letter (verified). Needs human reading.

    Cited by 1 statement

  13. Primary textIdentified, not independently read

    Orientalium Ecclesiarum (Decree on the Catholic Churches of the Eastern Rite)

    Second Vatican Council · 21 November 1964

    Not read in session.

    Cited by 1 statement

  14. Reference workIdentified, not independently read

    Russian Orthodox Church

    Wikipedia

    Tertiary discovery aid. The v0.1 build spot-checked the dates 988, 1325, 1439, 1448, 1589, 1721, 1917 and 2018 against it; it is never the sole basis of a verified claim.

    Cited by 1 statement

  15. ScholarshipIdentified, not independently read

    The Baptist Heritage: Four Centuries of Baptist Witness

    H. Leon McBeth · Broadman Press · 1987

    Standard history of Baptist origins, including Smyth, Helwys and contacts with Dutch Mennonites. Not read.

    Cited by 6 statements

  16. ScholarshipIdentified, not independently read

    The Church of the East: A Concise History

    Wilhelm Baum and Dietmar W. Winkler · RoutledgeCurzon · 2003

    Gemini SRC-14. Identified, not read. Cited for the synods of 410/424 and the 16th-century union that produced the Chaldean Catholic Church.

    Cited by 4 statements

  17. Official church sourceIdentified, not independently read

    The Ethiopian Orthodox Church

    Aymro Wondmagegnehu and Joachim Motovu (eds) · Ethiopian Orthodox Mission, Addis Ababa · 1970

    The church's own account of its history, including the 1959 patriarchate. Not read.

    Cited by 1 statement

  18. ScholarshipIdentified, not independently read

    The Holiness–Pentecostal Tradition: Charismatic Movements in the Twentieth Century

    Vinson Synan · Eerdmans · 1997

    Standard history of Pentecostalism's Wesleyan-Holiness roots. Not read in session.

    Cited by 9 statements

  19. ScholarshipIdentified, not independently read

    The Orthodox Church: An Introduction to Eastern Christianity

    Timothy (Kallistos) Ware · Penguin · new ed. 2015

    Standard introduction (Gemini SRC-03; also listed in v0.1). Not read in session.

    Cited by 45 statements

  20. Agreed ecumenical statementIdentified, not independently read

    The Word of God in the Life of the Church: Report of International Conversations between the Catholic Church and the Baptist World Alliance 2006–2010

    Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity; Baptist World Alliance

    Existence confirmed from the official dialogue page title; not read.

    Cited by 2 statements

  21. ScholarshipIdentified, not independently read

    Wesley and the People Called Methodists

    Richard P. Heitzenrater · Abingdon Press · 1995

    Not read.

    Cited by 3 statements

Agreements and dialogues

17

What was agreed, what remains open, and with what authority.

  1. 7 December 1965

    Joint Catholic–Orthodox Declaration

    Pope Paul VI and Ecumenical Patriarch Athenagoras I, with his synod

    Concerns: Catholic Church · Eastern Orthodox Church (Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople)

    Agreed

    Still open

    Standing

    A joint act of the Church of Rome and the Ecumenical Patriarchate. Other Orthodox churches were not parties to it.
    Source

  2. 1972–present

    International Catholic–Pentecostal Dialogue

    The Catholic Church's unity office and participating Pentecostal churches and leaders

    Concerns: Catholic Church · Pentecostalism

    Agreed

    Standing

    Dialogue reports, not agreements binding the churches.
    Source

    Provisional: broadly supported, but awaiting fuller checking.

  3. 10 May 1973

    Common Declaration of Pope Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III

    Pope Paul VI and Pope Shenouda III

    Concerns: Catholic Church · Coptic Orthodox Church

    Agreed

    Still open

    Standing

    A common declaration of the two heads of church, which set up a joint commission for further study.
    Source

  4. 1973

    Leuenberg Agreement

    Lutheran, Reformed and United churches in Europe (now the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe)

    Concerns: Lutheranism (European Lutheran churches) · Reformed and Presbyterian Churches (European Reformed churches)

    Agreed

    Standing

    Adopted in 1973; 96 Protestant churches now belong to the communion on its basis. It is a European agreement, not one between all Lutheran and Reformed churches.
    Source

  5. 1981

    Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission: Final Report

    Anglican–Roman Catholic International Commission (ARCIC I)

    Concerns: Catholic Church · Anglican Communion

    Agreed

    Still open

    Standing

    Reports of an international commission, received with different degrees of approval by the two churches.
    Source

    Provisional: broadly supported, but awaiting fuller checking.

  6. 1989–1990

    Agreed Statements of the Joint Commission of the Orthodox Church and the Oriental Orthodox Churches

    Joint Commission of the Theological Dialogue (Anba Bishoy Monastery, June 1989; Chambésy, September 1990)

    Concerns: Eastern Orthodox churches · Oriental Orthodox churches

    Agreed

    • Both families condemn the Eutychian and the Nestorian heresies and confess the incarnate Word as fully divine and fully human, united 'without confusion, without change, without division and without separation'.
      Source
    • Both accept the first three ecumenical councils as common heritage; the Oriental Orthodox respond positively to the Orthodox reading of the later four councils, and the two families are in basic agreement on the veneration of icons.
      Source

    Still open

    Standing

    Agreed statements of a theological commission, addressed to the churches as recommendations.
    3 sources

  7. 1989–1992

    Baptist–Mennonite Theological Conversations

    Baptist World Alliance and Mennonite World Conference

    Concerns: Baptist Churches · Anabaptism

    Agreed

    Standing

    A bilateral conversation report of the two world bodies.
    Source

    Provisional: broadly supported, but awaiting fuller checking.

  8. 11 November 1994

    Common Christological Declaration between the Catholic Church and the Assyrian Church of the East

    Pope John Paul II and Catholicos-Patriarch Mar Dinkha IV

    Concerns: Catholic Church · Assyrian Church of the East

    Agreed

    Still open

    Standing

    Signed by the heads of both churches at St Peter's.
    Source

  9. 1996

    Porvoo Declaration

    Anglican churches of Britain and Ireland and Lutheran churches of the Nordic and Baltic countries

    Concerns: Anglican Communion (British and Irish Anglican churches) · Lutheranism (Nordic and Baltic Lutheran churches)

    Agreed

    • The declaration was signed at Trondheim and Tallinn in September 1996 and at Westminster Abbey in November 1996, forming the Porvoo Communion.
      Source

    Standing

    A regional communion; it does not include all Anglican or all Lutheran churches.
    Source

  10. 1998–2003

    Called Together to be Peacemakers

    Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and Mennonite World Conference

    Concerns: Catholic Church · Anabaptism

    Agreed

    Standing

    A dialogue report; its content has not been reviewed for the Atlas.
    Source

    Provisional: broadly supported, but awaiting fuller checking.

  11. 31 October 1999

    Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification

    Lutheran World Federation and Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, signed at Augsburg; later joined by the World Methodist Council (2006), the Anglican Consultative Council (2016) and the World Communion of Reformed Churches (2017)

    Concerns: Catholic Church (signatory (1999)) · Lutheranism (signatory through the Lutheran World Federation (1999)) · Methodism (associated through the World Methodist Council (2006)) · Anglican Communion (affirmed by the Anglican Consultative Council (2016)) · Reformed and Presbyterian Churches (associated through the World Communion of Reformed Churches (2017))

    Agreed

    Still open

    Standing

    Signed in 1999 and confirmed by an Official Common Statement; the Methodist, Anglican and Reformed world communions later associated themselves with it. The Atlas has not checked reception by each member church.
    3 sources

  12. 20 July 2001

    Guidelines for Admission to the Eucharist between the Chaldean Church and the Assyrian Church of the East

    Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, in agreement with the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and the Congregation for the Oriental Churches

    Concerns: Catholic Church · Eastern Catholic Churches (Chaldean Catholic Church) · Assyrian Church of the East

    Agreed

    Still open

    Standing

    Catholic pastoral guidelines, following a CDF judgement approved by Pope John Paul II.
    Source

  13. 2003

    The Filioque: A Church-Dividing Issue?

    North American Orthodox–Catholic Theological Consultation

    Concerns: Catholic Church · Eastern Orthodox churches

    Agreed

    Still open

    Standing

    Recommendations of a regional theological consultation, not a decision of either church.
    Source

  14. 1 November 2003

    Anglican–Methodist Covenant

    Leaders of the Church of England and the Methodist Church in Great Britain

    Concerns: Anglican Communion (Church of England) · Methodism (Methodist Church in Great Britain)

    Agreed

    Standing

    A national covenant in Great Britain; both churches recommitted to it in 2024.
    Source

    Provisional: broadly supported, but awaiting fuller checking.

  15. 2006–2010

    The Word of God in the Life of the Church

    Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity and Baptist World Alliance

    Concerns: Catholic Church · Baptist Churches

    Agreed

    Standing

    A conversation report; its content has not been reviewed for the Atlas.
    Source

    Provisional: broadly supported, but awaiting fuller checking.

  16. July 2010

    Lutheran World Federation action on the legacy of Lutheran persecution of Anabaptists

    Lutheran World Federation Assembly, Stuttgart, with Mennonite World Conference

    Concerns: Lutheranism · Anabaptism

    Agreed

    Standing

    An act of the LWF Assembly, received by Mennonite World Conference.
    Source

  17. 24 November 2017

    Common Statement on 'Sacramental Life' (Catholic Church – Assyrian Church of the East)

    Cardinal Kurt Koch and Mar Meelis, co-chairs of the Joint Committee for Theological Dialogue

    Concerns: Catholic Church · Assyrian Church of the East

    Agreed

    • A shared understanding of sacramental life, including ordained ministers who 'stand in the apostolic succession'; the Assyrian Church's own list of sacraments includes the Sign of the Cross and the Holy Leaven.
      Source

    Still open

    • Full communion is not restored and the document does not permit concelebration; the next phase of dialogue concerns the constitution of the Church.
      Source

    Standing

    A joint committee statement, signed by its co-chairs.
    Source

How the Gemini research handover was checked, claim by claim, is recorded in docs/RESEARCH_INTEGRATION.md in the source package.