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UNIATE CHURCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of several churches in eastern Europe or the Middle East that acknowledge papal authority but retain their own liturgy
Synonyms:
Uniat Church; Uniate Church
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
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)