eastern church
English Thesaurus
1. the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire (noun.group)
| hypernym | : | catholic church, catholic church, |
| definition | : | any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church (noun.group) |
2. derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites (noun.group)
| hyponym | : | russian orthodox church, |
| definition | : | an independent church with its own Patriarch; until 1917 it was the established church or Russia (noun.group) |
| domain member category | : | canonisation, canonization, |
| definition | : | (Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Church) the act of admitting a deceased person into the canon of saints (noun.act) |
| domain member category | : | bishop, |
| definition | : | 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 (noun.person) |
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