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as there is in Roman Catholicism
It means "in the way that".
It has no necessary connotation of "opposite". A sentence like this would be fine:
There is a central authority in (X sect), as there is in Roman ...
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What is the difference between require and be required?
We are required
is a passive construction. It does not take a direct object. It means the same as "Someone requires us"
This is the opposite of "We require". In the passive form ...
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Appreciation about a dead person
That looks like a heading to me.
There is nothing very special here, it marks this obituary as an "appreciation" of the author. It isn't a particular idiom or formal expression in English, ...
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as there is in Roman Catholicism
You could replace 'as' with 'like' in this context.
The thing is there isn't a centralized authority in Pentecostalism, whereas there is such an authority in Roman Catholicism.
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