NEW JERUSALEM CATHOLIC CHURCH TIMELINE 1886 (January 8): Giuseppe Maria Abbate was born in Isnello, Sicily, Italy. 1906 (April 22): Abbate arrived in the United States. After a brief stay in Brooklyn, New York, he moved to Chicago, where he worked as a barber. 1906: Abbate saw Jesus walking into his barbershop. Sitting in a barber chair, he announced that Abbate was the Celestial Messenger, requesting him to preach to humanity and ordaining him to the priesthood. 1910s: Abbate received frequent divine messages. He studied the Bible, in particular, the Old Testament prophetical literature and the Book of Revelation, gradually realizing that he was the Messiah, the Second Coming of Christ. 1912: While in St. Mary’s Church praying to be healed from rheumatism, Jesus appeared to Abbate. Subsequently, he had…
OLIVE TREE MOVEMENT TIMELINE 1917: The founder, Park T’aesŏn, was born in northwestern Korea, in South Pyŏngan Province. 1925: Park began attending a Protestant church after the death of his mother. 1933: Park moved to Japan to attend middle school and high school. 1941: Park married Park Chŏngwŏn in Tokyo. 1944: Park returned to Korea because of the heavy bombing of Japan.That book, Omyo wŏlli (奧妙元理 Profound Principles), was the primary scriptural guide. 1946: Park attended a revival service conducted by an evangelist of the Holiness church during which he saw tongues of fire falling down from heaven. 1949: Park met Chŏng Tŭgŭn, a female evangelist who reportedly later convinced Park to participate in a “blood-replacing ritual” involving sexual activity. Park denied that report. 1949: Park Yunmyŏng, the third son of Park…
PAULA WHITE TIMELINE 1966 (April 20): Paula Michelle Furr was born in Tupelo, Mississippi. 1984: Furr converted to Christianity at the Damascus Church of God in Maryland at age eighteen. 1984: Paula Furr married Dean Knight and had a son, Bradley Knight. 1989: Paula Furr Knight and Dean Knight divorced. 1990: Paula Furr Knight married Randy White, a Church of God pastor. 1991: Paula White co-founded Without Walls International Church in Tampa, Florida, with Randy White. 2001: Paula White began broadcasting the televangelism program, Paula White Today. 2003: Paula White published Birthing Your Dreams: God’s Plan for Living Victoriously. 2004: Paula White published Daily Treasures (Words of Wisdom for the Power-Filled Life). 2004: Paula White published He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not: What Every Woman Needs to Know About…
LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS TIMELINE 1950: Pope Pius XII convened the First General Congress of the States of Perfection, calling to Rome the superiors general of religious orders throughout the world. 1952 (August): The heads of men’s and women’s religious organizations met at the National Congress of Religious of the USA. 1956 (April): The Vatican’s Congregation for Religious asked U.S. Sisters to form a national conference. 1956 (November 24): The Conference of Major Superiors of Women (CMSW) was launched. 1961: The Second National Congress of Religious in the United States convened superiors of men’s and women’s religious communities at the University of Notre Dame in Indiana. 1962–1965: The Second Vatican Council of worldwide bishops met in Rome. 1963: CMSW established its headquarters in Washington, D.C. 1964: The first CMSW…
RUSSIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH TIMELINE 1589: Iov was elected the first Patriarch of Moscow. 1654: Patriarch Nikon's ecclesiastical reform and the Schism took place. 1666-1667: The Great Moscow Council anathematized the Old Rite. 1686: The Metropolitanate of Kiev joined the Moscow Patriarchate. 1700–1917: The Synodal Era occurred. 1811: The Georgian Orthodox Church was included into the Russian Church as an Exarchate. 1917: The Patriarchate was reinstated. 1918-1939: The church was persecuted by the atheist Soviet state. 1921: The Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia was formed. 1922-1946: The Renovationist movement in the church took place. 1927: The Synodal Epistle (“Declaration of Loyalty”) was written by Metropolitan Sergii. 1939-1941: Parishes on the new territories returned to the Moscow Patriarchate. 1943: Metropolitan Sergii was instated as Patriarch. 1943-1948: The Russian Orthodox Church recognized Georgian…
HILDEGARD OF BINGEN TIMELINE 1098: Hildegard of Bingen was born at Bermersheim, 45 km south of Mainz, Germany. 1106 (?): At the age of eight, Hildegard was put in the care of Jutta of Sponheim, a pious noblewoman. 1112 (November 1): With Jutta, Hildegard entered an enclosure belonging to the Benedictine monastery of Disibodenberg, 60 km southwest of Mainz, Germany. At an unknown date, Hildegard took formal vows to become a nun. 1136: Jutta died, and Hildegard was appointed leader of the women’s convent at Disibodenberg. The convent was part of a double monastery, housing both men and women in separate quarters, under the direction of Abbot Burchard. 1141: Having undergone a major mystical experience, and encouraged by the monastery schoolmaster Volmar, Hildegard began writing her first book, Scivias, in…
SHINCHEONJI TIMELINE 1931 (September 15): Lee Man Hee was born at Punggak-myeon, Hyeonri-ri, Cheongdo District, North Gyeongsang Province, Korea (now South Korea). 1946: Lee was among the first graduates of Punggak Public Elementary School after the Japanese left Korea. 1950–1953: Lee served in the South Korean Army’s 7th Infantry Division during the Korean War. 1957–1967: Lee participated in the religious activities of the Olive Tree movement. 1967: Having left the Olive Tree, Lee joined another Korean Christian new religious movement, the Tabernacle Temple, in Gwacheon, Gyeonggi Province. 1979–1983: Lee repeatedly wrote letters to the leaders of the Tabernacle Temple, denouncing the corruption in the movement and urging them to repent. As a result, he was threatened and beaten. 1984 (March 14): After leaving the Tabernacle Temple, Lee founded Shincheonji Church…
ISLAM TIMELINE Distant Past: According to Islamic tradition, Adam was not only the first man, but also the first prophet. Subsequent prophets included Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Jesus. 570: The Prophet Muhammad was born. 610: The beginning of the revelation of the Quran took place. 622: The Hijra (emigration) to Medina took place. 629: Mecca was conquered. 632: The Prophet Muhammad died. 632: The accession of Abu Bakr as first Caliph took place. 634: The first battle between Muslim and Byzantine forces took place. 651: The Sassanid empire was defeated. 657: The battle of Siffin took place. 661: The Umayyad Caliphate was established. 680: The battle of Karbala took place. 900s: Greek philosophy was read in Baghdad. 1200s: The Muslim conquest of Turkey started. 1300s: The Muslim conquest of India…
ZION CHRISTIAN CHURCH TIMELINE 1885: Engenas (Ignatius) Lekganyane, founder of the Zion Christian Church, was born. 1904: A mass baptism in Wakkerstroom by missionaries from the Christian Catholic Apostolic Church in Zion, Illinois, took place. A Zionist church was subsequently founded. 1908: Under influence of two American missionaries, the Apostolic Faith Mission (AFM) was founded. Many of the Wakkerstroom Zionists joined, but they insisted on keeping their name. 1910: Engenas Lekganyane received his calling in a dream. 1912: Engenas Lekganyane was baptized in the Zionist branch of the AFM. 1916: The Zionist congregation within the AFM to which Lekganyane belonged seceded from the AFM and formed the Zion Apostolic Church (ZAC). 1916: Engenas Lekganyane received his preaching credentials within the ZAC. 1919: Another black congregation within the AFM broke away…
SAINTS PERPETUA AND FELICITAS TIMELINE Birth dates unknown. 203 c.e. (March): Perpetua and Felicitas were martyred in Carthage. Both the year and the precise day that the women were martyred have sometimes been disputed. However, that they died on the birthday of Geta, the son of Roman emperor Septimius Severus, which has been calculated to have occurred in March, is generally accepted, as is the year 203 (Mursurillo 1972:xxvi–xxvii; Barnes 1968:521–25). HISTORY/BIOGRAPHY The text titled the “Passion of Saint Perpetua and Saint Felicitas and Their Companions” has been preserved in both Latin and Greek. The Greek version is generally thought to be a translation of the Latin text. [Image at right] The story is also told in a shorter version referred to as the “Acts of Perpetua and Felicitas,” or…