former Episcopalian churches 2009 Pope Benedict XVI issues apostolic constitution Anglicanorum coetibus, establishing personal ordinariates for Anglican Use Catholics 2010 Lutheran CORE creates North American Lutheran Church in schism from the ELCA 2010, October 31: Attack on Baghdad church results in 52 deaths 2011, January 1: A church in Alexandria, Egypt, is bombed, killing 21 people, mostly Christians 2011 Martyrdom of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani politician, the only Christian elected member of the National Assembly, and outspoken critic of Pakistan's blasphemy laws 2012: ECO: A Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians established by former members of the Presbyterian Church (USA) 2013, March: Pope Francis, an Argentinean, becomes the first non-European pope in modern times, first pope from the Jesuit order, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere. 2014 No Mass is said in Mosul for the first time in 1,600 years due to the city's fall to ISIL 2015: Catholicos Karekin II canonizes 1.5 million Armenians killed in Armenian genocide as martyrs 2015 Coptic Martyrs in Libya 2016, June 19 – June 26: The Pan-Orthodox Council at Crete 2016: Four cardinals issue dubia, asking Pope Francis to clarify his statements on divorced and civilly remarried couples receiving Holy Communion 2018: Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò accuses Pope Francis of removing sanctions placed on then-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick 2018: Pope Francis signs agreement allowing Chinese Communist Party to appoint bishops while crackdown on Chinese Catholics continues 2018, early October: Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople decides to grant autocephaly to proposed Ukrainian Orthodox Church on January 6, 2019. 2018, October 15: Russian Orthodox Church announces break in relations with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople over objections of communion with the formerly noncanonical Ukrainian Orthodox Churches 2018, December 15: Unification council merges former Ukrainian Orthodox Churches of UOC-KP, UAOC, and parts of UOC-MP into the unified Ukrainian Orthodox Church 2020, March: Public masses suspended in cities around the world due to COVID-19 pandemic 2021, July 12: Baselios Marthoma Paulose II (Catholicose of the East and Malankara Metropolitan) Supreme Head of the Indian Orthodox Church, dies See also Christ myth theory Chronology of the Bible Great Church History of ancient Israel and Judah Timeline of Christian missions Timeline of the Catholic Church Footnotes Sources World Almanac and Book of Facts Academic American Encyclopedia (on Compuserve) Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary English Versions of the Bible by John Berchmans Dockery O.F.M. Catholic Encyclopedia: Biblical