Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the first denomination in the United States founded by Black people. The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.
Kept in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church. The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.
The funeral is held in the home or the barn, the coffin is plain and made by the community, and the grave marker is uniform with every other.
Kept across the provinces of the Anglican Communion. The Order for the Burial of the Dead is in the Prayer Book, and the sixteenth-century books removed the prayers for the dead that the medieval rite had carried.
The Order for the Burial of the Dead is in the Prayer Book, and the sixteenth-century books removed the prayers for the dead that the medieval rite had carried.
Kept in the Armenian Apostolic Church. The funeral offices differ by order and by day, and prayer for the dead is offered at the Liturgy.
The funeral is a service of the congregation, plain in form, with no prayer offered for the dead.
The Reformed burial was deliberately plain, and the Westminster Directory directed that the body be interred without ceremony, which is a reaction against the medieval rite rather than an absence of one.
Kept in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church. The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.
Kept in the Church of Cyprus, autocephalous since the Council of Ephesus in 431. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Church of England, the province from which the Prayer Book tradition comes. The Order for the Burial of the Dead is in the Prayer Book, and the sixteenth-century books removed the prayers for the dead that the medieval rite had carried.
Kept in the Church of Greece. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Church of Ireland. The Order for the Burial of the Dead is in the Prayer Book, and the sixteenth-century books removed the prayers for the dead that the medieval rite had carried.
Kept in the Church of Scotland, the established Presbyterian church of that country. The Reformed burial was deliberately plain, and the Westminster Directory directed that the body be interred without ceremony, which is a reaction against the medieval rite rather than an absence of one.
Kept in the Church of Sweden, which retained the historic episcopate through the Reformation as few Lutheran churches did. The burial office was retained, with the prayers for the dead removed and the promise of the resurrection put at the centre.
Kept in the Church of the Nazarene, which stands in the Wesleyan holiness line. The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.
Kept in the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria. The funeral offices differ by order and by day, and prayer for the dead is offered at the Liturgy.
The funeral is a service of the congregation.
Kept in the Dutch Reformed tradition, which holds the Heidelberg Catechism among its confessional standards. The Reformed burial was deliberately plain, and the Westminster Directory directed that the body be interred without ceremony, which is a reaction against the medieval rite rather than an absence of one.
The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, the see of first honour among the Orthodox churches. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The funeral offices differ by order and by day, and prayer for the dead is offered at the Liturgy.
Kept in the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church. The funeral offices differ by order and by day, and prayer for the dead is offered at the Liturgy.
Kept in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The burial office was retained, with the prayers for the dead removed and the promise of the resurrection put at the centre.
Kept in the Free Methodist Church. The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.
Kept in the Georgian Orthodox Church, which has used its own language and script in worship since the fifth century. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Global Methodist Church, formed in 2022. The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.
Kept in the Greek Orthodox churches. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
The burial office was retained, with the prayers for the dead removed and the promise of the resurrection put at the centre.
The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.
The dead are buried in God's Acre, where every stone is the same size and lies flat, so that no grave is grander than another. The Easter dawn service is read in the graveyard.
Kept in the National Baptist Convention of America International. The funeral is a service of the congregation, plain in form, with no prayer offered for the dead.
The funeral offices differ by order and by day, and prayer for the dead is offered at the Liturgy.
The funeral is a service of worship rather than a rite performed upon the body.
Kept in the Progressive National Baptist Convention. The funeral is a service of the congregation, plain in form, with no prayer offered for the dead.
The dead are remembered in a meeting for worship, in silence, with anyone free to speak, and the burial is plain.
The funeral is ordinarily a Mass, with the commendation of the dead and the rite of committal, and prayer for the dead follows from the doctrine of purgatory.
Kept in the Romanian Orthodox Church, the one Orthodox church of the Byzantine tradition whose language is Romance. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Russian Orthodox Church, in the Slavonic recension of the Byzantine books. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Serbian Orthodox Church. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Episcopal Church, whose own Prayer Book descends from the Scottish rather than the English line. The Order for the Burial of the Dead is in the Prayer Book, and the sixteenth-century books removed the prayers for the dead that the medieval rite had carried.
Kept in the United Methodist Church. The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.
Kept in the Ukrainian Orthodox Church. The funeral service, the Panikhida and the memorial services on the third, ninth and fortieth days form one continuous set of offices for the dead.
Kept in the Wesleyan Church. The Service of Death and Resurrection is the modern form of the burial office and takes its name from what it is meant to proclaim.