2003

The year 2003 AD

Events

 * 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.
 * August 4: Death of Anthony (Bloom) of Sourozh, Russian Orthodox bishop of the diocese of Sourozh
 * 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 Pentacostalism as "the world's fastest-growing Christian movement."

Timeline
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