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EASTERN CHURCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Eastern Church mean? 

EASTERN CHURCH (noun)
  The noun EASTERN CHURCH has 2 senses:

1. derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine ritesplay

2. the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empireplay

  Familiarity information: EASTERN CHURCH used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


EASTERN CHURCH (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Eastern Church; Eastern Orthodox; Eastern Orthodox Church; Orthodox Catholic Church; Orthodox Church

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)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Byzantine Church; Eastern Church

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

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


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