But instead of reviewing church history, Brown has spent the past few years studying the future.
The Churches Conservation Trust (CCT) wants to grow its knowledge of Somerset church history over a 900-year period.
Catholics revere Mary, the mother of Jesus, and church history is replete with female saints who struggled and died for the faith.
Castel Gandolfo (CNN) -- Pope Francis is having lunch Saturday with his predecessor, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI, in what may be an encounter unprecedented in Church history.
Dr Neil Rushton, conservation project manager for the trust, said he believed the work would discover a lot more about Somerset church history and what was going on around them.
He earned a doctorate in church history from The Catholic University of America and sprinkles his speeches with details of the early struggles Catholic immigrants trying to carve a place for themselves in Protestant America.
In their declaration, prompted by the pope's pre-millennium call to local churches to ask for pardon for misdeeds committed during the course of the church's history, the French bishops seek to place the church's actions between 1940 and 1945 in a historical context.
On Monday, Mrs Hood will be called upon to preside over one of the most controversial debates in the church's history.
The future pope entered the priesthood in 1951 and spent the early years of his career navigating one of the most tumultuous periods in the church's history.
Pope Francis's election was unique in many ways, not least because of his background -- he's the first Latin American pope to lead the church in its history.
Each side in the debate has spoken of a watershed moment in the Church's history, with even a modest shift down the road towards ordaining gay people likely to change its character.
Decentralized church systems with a history of less formal schooling historically outperform top-heavy ones with heavy academic requirements.
Cardinal Bergoglio, however, wanted to talk about the elephant in the room: the long-term future of the church and its recent history of failure.
The public silence of the Vatican during the widespread atrocities of World War II is arguably the most controversial issue in the Catholic Church's wartime history.
Moritz, who is chairman of Sequoia Capital, studied history at Christ Church College, Oxford, and graduated in 1976.
Despite that deep history, the church has lost its monopoly on souls amid the rise of evangelical churches.
Zardari is studying history at Christ Church College and has three more years of his course to run.
The event also marked the launch of an educational project celebrating the history of the church and a schools programme.
Mr Mortiz studied history at Christ Church College and graduated in 1976.
BBC: Sunday Times Rich List: Michael Moritz hits Wales top spot
There were moments, as there were throughout the history of the church, when the seas were rough and the wind blew against us and it seemed the Lord was sleeping.
"There were also moments in which the waters were agitated and the wind against us when, as in the entire history of the Church, the Lord seemed asleep, " he added.
The release "concludes a sad and shameful chapter in the history of our Local Church, " the archdiocese said.
In the modern history of the Catholic Church, "no other story has drawn such negative coverage over this arc of time, " says Allen.
Since I was inaugurated as the Presiding Minister of this esteemed church, God has being helping us to keep hope and monuments alive and we have also being able to change the face of Christianity, and the church having a whole lot of history attached.
Italian POWs and a Texas Church is an especially valuable find for history and art enthusiasts.
The Bishop of Ripon and Leeds, the Rt Rev John Packer, said the church had a "long and distinguished history".
With the election of Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Buenos Aires as pope, the Roman Catholic Church enters the next chapter of her history.
Even a confident man like the new pope might be forgiven a little nervousness upon assuming control of the world's biggest church during a pivotal time in its history.
应用推荐