CATHOLIC CHURCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Catholic Church mean? 

• CATHOLIC CHURCH (noun)
  The noun CATHOLIC CHURCH has 1 sense:

1. any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church

  Familiarity information: CATHOLIC CHURCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CATHOLIC CHURCH (noun)

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)