LC control no. | n 80046232 |
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Descriptive conventions | rda |
Corporate name heading | Worldwide Church of God |
Variant(s) | Iglesia de Dios Universal |
See also | Radio Church of God Grace Communion International |
Beginning date | 1968 |
Ending date | 2009 |
Found in | The plain truth about ... 1972. Pura verdad, Jan. 1984: masthead (Iglesia de Dios Universal ; Worldwide Church of God) Answers.com WWW site, viewed July 20, 2007: Ambassador College entry (Radio Church of God began in 1930's, name later changed to Worldwide Church of God) <www.answers.com/topic/ambassador-college> Wikipedia WWW site, viewed July 20, 2007: Worldwide Church of God entry (founded in 1933 as Radio Church of God, name changed to Worldwide Church of God on Jan. 5, 1968) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worldwide_Church_of_God> Worldwide Church of God WWW site, viewed July 20, 2007: (Worldwide Church of God began in 1933) <www.wcg.org/lit/aboutus/default.htm> Wikipedia, May 22, 2015 (Grace Communion International (GCI) is an evangelical Christian denomination based in Glendora, California, United States. Founded in 1934 as The Radio Church of God, Pastor General Herbert W. Armstrong had a significant, and often controversial, influence on 20th-century religious broadcasting and publishing in the United States and Europe, especially in the field of interpreting biblical end-time prophecies. It was renamed The Worldwide Church of God. It was also very famous with its multilingual free publication The Plain Truth and The World Tomorrow radio and television broadcasts worldwide.) <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Communion_International> Grace Communion International, viewed May 22, 2015 posting dated April 15, 2009 (The Worldwide Church of God announced that, effective April 3, 2009, it changed its denominational name to Grace Communion International. Although the church's official, incorporated denominational name has changed, it nonetheless retains ownership of the United States Registered Trademark “Worldwide Church of God” and continues to license that name to those of its local congregations across the country who wish to use it.) <https://www.gci.org/aboutus/namechange> |