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EASTERN CHURCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire
Synonyms:
Byzantine Church; Eastern Church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Eastern Church" is a kind of...):
Catholic Church (any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
Synonyms:
Eastern Church; Eastern Orthodox; Eastern Orthodox Church; Orthodox Catholic Church; Orthodox Church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Eastern Church" is a kind of...):
Catholic Church (any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church)
Domain member category:
canonisation; canonization ((Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints)
bishop (a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Eastern Church"):
Greek Church; Greek Orthodox Church (state church of Greece; an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church)
Russian Orthodox Church (an independent church with its own Patriarch; until 1917 it was the established church or Russia)
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