OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Old Catholic Church mean? 

• OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH (noun)
  The noun OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH has 1 sense:

1. Catholic churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 18th century

  Familiarity information: OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLD CATHOLIC CHURCH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Catholic churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 18th century

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("Old Catholic 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 "Old Catholic Church"):

Old Catholic (a member of the church formed in the 19th century by German Catholics who refused to accept the infallibility of the Pope)