1.   Each group has historically served immigrant communities and maintained closer ties to their separate mother churches than to each other.

2.   Gaylord has other broadcasting and cable properties, as well as the Grand Ole Opry, the mother church of country music in Nashville.

3.   The bishops emphasized that they were not breaking away from the mother churches.

4.   The Buffalo Gap church was known as the Holiness Church of Christ and is considered the mother church of all the churches she established.

5.   The decision to establish a single Orthodox body in the United States is subject to approval by leaders of the mother churches overseas.

6.   The Greek Orthodox Church in the United States is historically more independent-minded and democratic than the mother church.

7.   The mother church has the whole picture and we expect it to do what is appropriate.

8.   Viewers around the world will also see the gleaming gold-plated angel that blares a trumpet to the faithful from atop the mother church of the Mormons.

9.   Wimbledon is a local institution, the mother church of tennis.

10.   Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew agrees with this move because of canonical tradition and history, but Russian Patriarch Alexy disagrees and has suspended relations with the mother church.