2004

The year 2004 AD.

Events

• The Salvation Army begins work in Lithuania and Romania.
• LCMS resolution 3-08A permits women to "serve in humanly established offices" such as congregation president, elder, reader, or usher.
• At the United Methodist General Conference, a memo from a private meeting was circulated publically suggesting an "Amicable" Separation, allowing those who disapprove of Church policy to leave the denomination without losing their Church properties.
• Pope John Paul II extends a formal apology for the sacking of Constantinople in 1204; the apology was formally accepted by Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople.
• Pope John Paul II receives an extraordinary Charlemagne Award of the city of Aachen, Germany.
• February 25 - Release of Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ.
• August - Pope John Paul II returns the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God to the Russian Orthodox Church.
• November 27 - Pope John Paul II returns the bones (relics) of Patriarchs John Chrysostom and Gregory Nazianzen to Istanbul, in an attempt to "promote Christian unity" with Eastern Orthodoxy.