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Events relating to christianity
British prime minister William Gladstone introduces a bill to disestablish the Anglican church in Ireland
Pope Pius IX, rapidly losing temporal authority, declares a new dogma – that the pope, when speaking from the throne, is infallible on matters of faith or morals
The Turkish sultan finally allows the Christians of Bulgaria to have their own Orthodox patriarch
US shoe salesman and YMCA member Dwight L. Moody launches into a new career as a revivalist preacher
Giuseppe Sarto is elected pope and takes the name Pius X
Gideons International place their first bible in a hotel bedroom, in Montana, USA
Albert Schweitzer and his wife become missionaries at Lambaréné in west Africa
The Assemblies of God is established as the largest affiliation of Pentecostal churches
Giacomo della Chiesa is elected pope and takes the name Benedict XV
The Swiss theologian Karl Barth publishes his influential Commentary on Romans, taking St Paul's epistle as his text
Ambrogio Ratti is elected pope and takes the name Pius XI
In I and Thou the Austrian theologian Martin Buber interprets religion in terms of the subjective experience of interpersonal relationships
The Lateran Treaty, between the Holy See and the state of Italy, establishes the Vatican City as a free state within the wider nation
J. Arthur Rank founds the Religious Film Society to make films in Britain that will bring people to Christianity
Pope Pius XI issues an encyclical, Mit Brennender Sorge, condemning the Nazi ideology of racism
Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller is arrested for defying the Nazis and spends the next eight years in concentration camps
Eugenio Pacelli is elected pope and takes the name Pius XII
Roger Schutz establishes an ecumenical religious order at Taiz&eachute; in France
The World Council of Churches is established in Amsterdam – a significant step in the ecumenical movement
US evangelist Billy Graham forms the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, to take the Christian message to the world
Albanian missionary Mother Teresa opens the Nirmal Hriday, or Kalighat Home for Dying Destitutes, in Calcutta
Korean evangelist Sun Myung Moon launches the Unification Church, a mission to unify world Christianity
Civil war breaks out in Sudan between the Muslim north and the Christian south
US novelist Mary McCarthy describes the religious pressures she grew up with in Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Angelo Roncalli is elected pope and takes the name John XXIII
