Also known as Mazdayasna, it Is one the world's oldest religions, with its roots possibly stretching back to the second millennium B.C. Zoroastra is the Greek name for Zarathustra. Adherents believe in one supreme God, named Ahura Mazda. Its theology includes a duty to protect nature, which has led it be called the world's first ecological religion.
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Zoroastrianism
Zoroastrian Centre This art deco cinema building was designed in 1936 by F. E...
Stewart Duckworth Headlam was born on 12 January 1847 in Wavertree, Liverpool, Lancashire, the fourth of the five children of Thomas Duckworth Headlam (1806-1885) and Latitia Headlam née Simpson (1...
Non-conformist minister. Born in the City of London. President of St John's College, Oxford 1650-60. Chosen to succeed Thomas Goodwin, when he died in 1680, as pastor of the Independent congregatio...
Born Charles Manners. Â In 1762 his father added Sutton to the family surname following an inheritance. (See Burdett-Coutts for a discussion on this practice.)Â Archbishop of Canterbury 1805 - 1828...
Priest. Founder of St Augustine's Church, Kilburn, and first vicar there: 1870 - 1907. From St Augustine's Church website: "Richard Carr Kirkpatrick was the son of an Irish landowner and a friend ...
Clergyman. Born at 2 West Wing, Lansdown Crescent, Bath. Ordained as a priest in 1844. In 1855 he and other priests founded the Society of the Holy Cross, as an international Anglo-Catholic society...
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