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UNIATE CHURCH

Dictionary entry overview: What does Uniate Church mean?

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

1. any of several churches in eastern Europe or the Middle East that acknowledge papal authority but retain their own liturgy

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

Dictionary entry details

• UNIATE CHURCH (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Any of several churches in eastern Europe or the Middle East that acknowledge papal authority but retain their own liturgy

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Uniat Church; Uniate Church

Hypernyms ("Uniate Church" is a kind of...):

Catholic Church (any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church)

Meronyms (members of "Uniate Church"):

Uniat; Uniate; Uniate Christian (a member of the Uniat Church)

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