church service
church | a service conducted in a house of worship, don't be late for church |
| church mouse | a fictional mouse created by Lewis Carroll |
church
church building | a place for public (especially Christian) worship, the church was empty |
| church bell | a bell in a church tower (usually sounded to summon people to church), church bells were ringing all over town |
| church hat | a fanciful hat of the kind worn by Black women for Sunday worship |
| church key | can opener that has a triangular pointed end that pierces the tops of cans |
| church tower | the tower of a church |
funeral home
funeral parlor
funeral parlour
funeral chapel
funeral church
funeralesidence | a mortuary where those who knew the deceased can come to pay their last respects |
pew
church bench | long bench with backs, used in church by the congregation |
| church roll | a list of the members of church |
religious doctrine
church doctrine
gospel creed | the written body of teachings of a religious group that are generally accepted by that group |
ecclesiastical mode
Gregorian mode
church mode
medieval mode | any of a system of modes used in Gregorian chants up until , derived historically from the Greek mode |
Old Church Slavonic
Old Church Slavic
Church Slavic
Old Bulgarian | the Slavic language into which the Bible was translated in the th century |
religious music
church music | genre of music composed for performance as part of religious ceremonies |
church
Christian church | one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship |
| church | the body of people who attend or belong to a particular local church, our church is hosting a picnic next week |
Armenian Church
Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church | an independent Christian church established in Armenia since , was influenced by both Roman and Byzantine traditions |
| Catholic Church | any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church |
Roman Catholic
Western Church
Roman Catholic Church
Church of Rome
Roman Church | the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy |
| Nestorian Church | a Christian Church in the Middle East that followed Nestorianism, there is still a small Nestorian Church in Iraq |
| Old Catholic Church | Catholic churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the th century |
Eastern Church
Byzantine Church | the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire |
Orthodox Church
Orthodox Catholic Church
Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Church Eastern Orthodox | derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites |
Greek Orthodox Church
Greek Church | state church of Greece, an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church |
| Russian Orthodox Church | an independent church with its own Patriarch, until it was the established church or Russia |
Uniat Church
Uniate Church | any of several churches in eastern Europe or the Middle East that acknowledge papal authority but retain their own liturgy |
| Coptic Church | the ancient Christian church of Egypt |
Protestant Church
Protestant | the Protestant churches and denominations collectively |
| Christian Church Disciples of Christ | a Protestant church that accepts the Bible as the only source of true Christian faith and practices baptism by immersion |
Anglican Church
Anglican Communion
Church of England | the national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs), has its see in Canterbury and the sovereign as its temporal head |
| Episcopal Church Protestant Episcopal Church | United States church that is in communication with the see of Canterbury |
| Church of Ireland | autonomous branch of the Church of England in Ireland |
| Episcopal Church Episcopal Church of Scotland | an autonomous branch of the Anglican Communion in Scotland |
High Church
High Anglican Church | a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority) |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
Mormon Church
Mormons | church founded by Joseph Smith inwith headquarters in Salt Lake City, Utah |
Baptist Church
Baptists | any of various evangelical Protestant churches that believe in the baptism of voluntary believers |
Church of the Brethren
Dunkers
Dippers | a Baptist denomination founded inby Americans of German descent, opposed to military service and taking legal oaths, practiced trine immersion |
Christian Science
Church of Christ Scientist | Protestant denomination founded by Mary Baker Eddy in |
| Congregational Church | a Protestant denomination holding that each individual congregation should be self-governing |
| Congregational Christian Church | merger of the Congregational Church and the Christian Church |
| Evangelical and Reformed Church | a Protestant denomination of Calvinist faith |
| United Church of Christ | merger of the Congregational Christian Church and the Evangelical and Reformed Church in |
| Lutheran Church | the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of Martin Luther |
| Presbyterian Church | the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of John Calvin |
| Unitarian Church | the Protestant denomination that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity |
| Arminian Church | the Protestant denomination adhering to the views of Jacobus Arminius |
Methodist Church
Methodists | a Protestant denomination founded on the principles of John Wesley and Charles Wesley |
Wesleyan Methodist Church
Wesleyan Methodists | the original Methodist Church |
| Evangelical United Brethren Church | a Methodist denomination |
| United Methodist Church | union of the Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church |