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==History== | ==History== | ||
===Origins=== | ===Origins=== | ||
The Order was founded in the lost cathedral town of Sodexorstrom, [[ | The Order was founded in the lost cathedral town of Sodexorstrom, [[Merav]] in 1062 AD. | ||
===First Crusade=== | ===First Crusade=== | ||
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Due to the repression of the major apostolic churches (Insular Apostolic, Coscivian Orthodox, but most of all, Catholic) during Kirosocialism, the post-communist rebound in religious practice on the Kiravian mainland has been much more diverse in terms of the religious traditions embraced than was the landscape that preceded it. While most returnees to religion in urban Great Kirav have reverted to the faiths of their ancestors, others have taken up the Coscivian-origin religions, [[Kiravian Sectarians|Sectarian creeds]], {{wp|new religious movements}}, historical Protestantism (mainly [[Methodism in Kiravia|Methodism]]), and post-denominational {{wp|neo-Protestantism}}. | Due to the repression of the major apostolic churches (Insular Apostolic, Coscivian Orthodox, but most of all, Catholic) during Kirosocialism, the post-communist rebound in religious practice on the Kiravian mainland has been much more diverse in terms of the religious traditions embraced than was the landscape that preceded it. While most returnees to religion in urban Great Kirav have reverted to the faiths of their ancestors, others have taken up the Coscivian-origin religions, [[Kiravian Sectarians|Sectarian creeds]], {{wp|new religious movements}}, historical Protestantism (mainly [[Methodism in Kiravia|Methodism]]), and post-denominational {{wp|neo-Protestantism}}. | ||
One of the Order's post-reunification priorities has been countering the spread of Protestantism, new religious movements, and schismatic and heretical sects in Kiravia and providing Catholic alternatives to humanitarian missions sponsored by Protestant churches and other non-Catholic bodies. It is a major participant in the | One of the Order's post-reunification priorities has been countering the spread of Protestantism, new religious movements, and schismatic and heretical sects in Kiravia and providing Catholic alternatives to humanitarian missions sponsored by Protestant churches and other non-Catholic bodies. It is a major participant in the {{wp|Christian countercult movement}}, even joining forces with the interdenominational [[Christian Motorcyclists Association]] and Protestant churches in this effort. | ||
[[Category:IXWB]] | [[Category:IXWB]] | ||
[[Category:KRV]] | [[Category:KRV]] | ||
[[Category:History]] | [[Category:History]] | ||