2003

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The year 2003 AD

Contents 1 Events 2 Births 3 Deaths 4 See also

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• Pope John Paul II critizes the United States invasion of Iraq.
• The Roman Catholic Church announces that Pope John Paul II suffers from Parkinson's Disease.
• Methodist Church of England and the Church of England sign a covenant.
• A sect of the Assyrian Church of the East is discovered in China, though long cut off from the denomination's head, the Patriarch of Babylon.
• Death of Derek Prince, Pentacostal theologian.
• Pfarrer Braun (Father Brown) debuts on German TV.
• February 27: Dr. Rowan Douglas Williams is enthroned as the 104th Archbishop of Canterbury at Canterbury Cathedral.
• June 22: Pope John Paul II visits Banja Luka in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

• October: the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) issues a statement congratulating Pope John Paul II on entering the 25th year of his papacy.
• November 9 Sharon Tubbs cites Pentecostalism as "the world's fastest-growing Christian movement."

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[edit] Deaths

• August 4: Death of Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh, Russian Orthodox bishop of the diocese of Sourozh

[edit] See also

• 21st century

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