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CATHOLIC CHURCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Catholic Church" is a kind of...):
Christian church; church (one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship)
Meronyms (members of "Catholic Church"):
Catholic (a member of a Catholic church)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Catholic Church"):
Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
Old Catholic Church (Catholic churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 18th century)
Byzantine Church; Eastern Church (the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire)
Eastern Church; Eastern Orthodox; Eastern Orthodox Church; Orthodox Catholic Church; Orthodox Church (derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites)
Uniat Church; Uniate Church (any of several churches in eastern Europe or the Middle East that acknowledge papal authority but retain their own liturgy)
