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The Church of Alexandria (2343 words) |
 | The Church of Alexandria, founded according to the constant tradition of both East and West by St. Mark the Evangelist, was the centre from which Christianity spread throughout all Egypt, the nucleus of the powerful Patriarchate of Alexandria. |
| Demetrius governed the Church of Alexandria for forty-two years, and it was he who deposed and excommunicated Origen, notwithstanding his great work as a catechist. |
| By the eleventh century Alexandria had ceased to be the sole place where the patriarch was consecrated. |
| British Empire - encyclopedia article about British Empire. (7906 words) |
| Pope Gregory VIII hosts the Council of Avranches where Henry II of England is absolved of the sin of murder in the matter of the assassination of Thomas Becket |
| As it was mostly unoccupied by the Western powers as late as the 1880s, Africa became the primary target of the "new" imperialist expansion, although conquest took place also in other areas — notably south-east Asia and the East Asian seaboard, where the United States and Japan joined the European powers' scramble for territory. |
| Britain's entry into the new imperial age is often dated to 1875, when the Conservative government of Benjamin Disraeli bought the indebted Egyptian ruler Ismail's shareholding in the Suez Canal to secure control of this strategic waterway, a channel for shipping between Britain and India since its opening six years earlier under Emperor Napoleon III. |
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