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(Roman Catholicism, historical) A member of a sect in fourth-century Africa mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married but lived in continence after the manner, as they claimed, of Abel.
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A member of the Abyssinian Church.
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Relating to a rift that occurred in the early 6th century, between the Eastern and Western Christian churches, occurring during the rule of Patriarch Acacius of Constantinople.
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(historical, uncommon) A radical Monophysite in the era after the Council of Chalcedon (451 CE).
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(historical) An order of fifth-century monks who, by turns, kept up a divine service day and night.
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(short form) A member of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.
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An autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church.
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of or relating to the heresy of Catharism, which first took hold in Albi, France
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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(historical) A group of Christian heretics in Asia Minor that flourished around 170 CE.
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(historical) A member of the Alogi, a group of Christian heretics in Asia Minor that flourished around 170 CE.
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A raised platform in an early Christian church, as well as in the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, and Eastern Catholic churches.
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A religious follower of St Ambrose.
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A strict Anabaptist sect living mainly in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Indiana.
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(Christianity) A church descended from the historical Church of the East, which split from the Assyrian Church of the East over differences concerning the calendar.
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Anglo-Catholic beliefs and practices.
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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(historical) A sixth-century non-Chalcedonian sect who believed that Christ's body was always incorruptible and only perished by Christ's conscious willing decision.
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A bishop of Mesopotamia under the emperor Probus, noted for his treatise on the Manichaean heresy dating to AD 277.
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(Christianity) Of or pertaining to Arius or Arianism.
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(historical, religion) One of a sect in the primitive church who celebrated the Lord's Supper with bread and cheese, alleging that the first oblations of men were not only of the fruit of the earth, but of their flocks.
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(Christianity) A church descended from the historical Church of the East, currently seated in the United States.
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of, or relating to several religious orders influenced by him
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(historical) One of an association of religious laymen living in semimonastic communities in imitation of the Beguines, and influenced by Albigensian teachings and by the Brethren of the Free Spirit.
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(Christianity, historical) A member of a dualist Christian sect which flourished in the Balkans during the 10th to 15th centuries and was characterized by resistance to the state and church authorities.
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(historical, religion) An adherent of Bogomilism; a Bogomil.
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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(Eastern Orthodoxy, Catholicism) of or relating to the Byzantine Rite or any of the many Eastern Orthodox churches and Greek Catholic churches that use this rite for their liturgical celebrations
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(derogatory) An adherent of cafeteria Catholicism
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A member of the Camaldolese.
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A member of the Camaldolese.
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A pupil of Charterhouse School (founded in a Carthusian monastery)
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A religious group in western North Carolina during the late 19th century. Mormon missionaries encountered them and found that they were enemies, not converts.
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Relating to Cathari or Catharism.
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Of the Western Christian church, as differentiated from e.g. the Orthodox church.
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Any of the independent Catholic Churches, such as the Old Catholic Church, the Polish National Catholic Church, or the Orthodox Catholic Church.
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Obsolete form of Catholic. [A member of a Catholic church.]
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(rare) Relating to or characteristic of Catholicism.
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(Orthodox Christianity) A large urban church used for large gatherings.
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A new or recent member of a Greek monastic religious order; a caloyer.
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(Christianity) An Eastern Catholic particular church (sui juris), which uses the Chaldean rite, in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church.
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Pertaining to the Christadelphians.
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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The Anglican church body active in Ireland (both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland).
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The Roman Catholic Church.
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(historical) The church originally made up of the Christians of the Sasanid Empire, later known as the Nestorian church and characterised by its use of the East Syriac liturgical rite.
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(Eastern Orthodoxy, historical) A kind of penitent who was allowed to assist at prayers, but was not permitted to receive the holy sacraments.
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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A member of the Coptic Church.
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An Orthodox Church based in Egypt
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(Christianity, historical) A member of a religious group of Russian origin who rejected the Czarist government of the late 1800s and Russian Orthodox priests, icons, and rituals, aiming to internalize the living spirit of God in each individual.
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A member of a benefit society founded in 1781, the Ancient Order of Druids.
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Of the Christian churches originating in the church of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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A member of an Eastern Catholic church.
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The forms of Christianity traditionally practiced in Eastern Europe, eastern Africa, and Asia, including the Eastern Orthodox, Eastern Catholic, Oriental Orthodox, and Nestorian traditions.
adj
Pertaining to the faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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One of the major branches of Christianity; it comprises the Greek Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church and other patriarchates.
n
The faith, practices, etc. of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
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A member of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary
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A thorough ecclesiastic history.
n
One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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(historical) The orthodox Christian church of antiquity, after 380 C.E. the established church of the Roman Empire, especially as distinct from smaller Christian movements or heresies.
adj
Of or relating to the Greek Catholic Church
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A member of the Greek Orthodox Church
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A group of Eastern Orthodox churches comprising the churches of Constantinople, Alexandria, Jerusalem, Cyprus and Greece.
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(ecclesiastical history) A member of a school of quietist monks in fourteenth-century Greece and Byzantium.
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A member of any of various mediaeval congregations of hermits named after St. Jerome.
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The patron saint of businesspeople, tailors, shoemakers, and clothworkers, as well as of Cremona in Italy.
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A member of the Catholic Apostolic Church.
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The quality of being Jain.
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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(Catholicism) a member of the Society of Jesus
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(historical, Christianity) A member of a millenarian group that arose from the Franciscans in the 13th century, basing their ideas on the prior works of Joachim of Fiore, though rejecting the church of their day more strongly than he had.
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A member of Josephites-CJ, a Roman Catholic religious order founded in Belgium.
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Alternative form of caloyer [A reclusive monk of the Greek Orthodox Church.]
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Alternative form of catholicos [(Christianity) A high-ranking bishop or patriarch in certain Eastern Christian traditions.]
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An Eastern Orthodox church or monastery built or reconstructed by a ktetor.
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A member of the Laestadianism religious movement.
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The quality of being Laodicean; lukewarmness in religion.
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(Catholicism) One of the 24 particular churches (sui juris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church which uses the Latin liturgical rites.
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A member of the Congregation of the Priests of the Mission founded by St Vincent de Paul.
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a member of the Legion of Christ, a Roman Catholic religious institute
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(Christianity) A member of the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer founded by Alphonsus Liguori (1696–1787).
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(Catholicism, archaic) A Jesuit; a member of the Society of Jesus.
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A fifth/sixth-century Catholic saint from Novempopulania
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(Christianity) A Syriac Eastern Catholic particular church (sui juris), founded by St Maron, in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church.
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A member of the Catholic missionary society Maryknoll.
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A member of the Trinitarian order.
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(historical) A member of a large group of denominations in early Christian history.
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(since the Great Schism) A member of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria, the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch or the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Jerusalem; ellipsis of Orthodox Melkite.
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(historical) A member of a group of Fraticelli led by Michael of Cesena.
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An early Christian saint who served as a soldier in the Roman Army during the persecution of Christians, especially the Diocletian persecution of AD 303–313.
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A member of the Moravian Church.
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Adhering more stringently to Roman Catholic practices and doctrine than is required by church doctrine.
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(Christianity) The original church of a denomination, regarded as having birthed the others.
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(religion) Any of those who separated from the official Russian Orthodox Church after 1666 as a protest against church reforms introduced by Patriarch Nikon between 1652 and 1666. They continue liturgical practices which predate the reforms.
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A member of an Old Catholic church.
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A particular Christian denomination that split from the Roman Catholic Church over matters of doctrine.
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A member of such a religious movement.
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(religion) Of or relating to the older mainline churches of the United States.
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A member of an Oriental Orthodox church.
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One of the three major divisions of Eastern Christianity, distinguished by its miaphysite Christology, not to be confused with Eastern Orthodox Church and the Church of the East.
adj
(Catholicism, religion) Of or relating to Origenism, the teachings of Origen of Alexandria largely declared anathema at the Synod of Constantinople (543).
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Of the eastern churches, Eastern Orthodox.
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The religion of Orthodox Christians.
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The Eastern Orthodox Church
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Synonym of Albanian Orthodox Church
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Synonym of Polish Orthodox Church
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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The Eastern Orthodox Church.
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a Hesychast, an intellectual leader of the Hesychasts
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A member of the Society of the Catholic Apostolate
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An expert on the Pandects compiled under the Roman emperor Justinian I.
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A saint, a martyr of Nicomedia in Bithynia during the Diocletianic Persecution of 305 AD.
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A member of a Roman Catholic religious institute with a special emphasis on the Passion of Jesus Christ.
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(historical) A member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect.
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(historical) A member of an Adamite sect of the sixteenth century and earlier, in the Flemish Netherlands and in Bohemia.
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An autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church.
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One of the two principal movements (along with the Bezpopovtsy) of the Old Believers.
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A member of this movement.
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(Christianity, historical) A mid-17th-century schism that split the Russian Orthodox Church into an official church and the Old Believers movement, triggered by the reforms of Patriarch Nikon in 1653, which aimed to establish uniformity between Greek and Russian church practices.
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Of or pertaining to the Latin or Roman Rite of the Catholic Church.
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Latin Church, the largest of the autonomous particular churches of the Catholic Church.
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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a member of any modern group or organization, e.g. Ancient Mystic Order Rosae Crucis (A.M.O.R.C.), formed for the study of Rosicrucianism and allied subjects.
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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A member of this society.
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One of the autocephalous Eastern Orthodox Christian churches.
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Society of Jesus (also as postnominal)
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(religion, archaic) The Old Believers.
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An Oriental Orthodox church branched from the Church of Antioch.
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A strong follower of the Tridentine Creed established at the Council of Trent.
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Any of several Christian Churches, mostly from Eastern Europe, that are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, but use their own language and customs.
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One who studies the Vatican.
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(historical, Christianity) A member of a sect of dissenters from the ecclesiastical system of the Roman Catholic Church, who in the 13th century were driven by persecution to the valleys of Piedmont.
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One who holds the doctrines of the Waldenses (a pre-Protestant church founded by Peter Waldo).
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(religion, Christianity) An adherent of any form of Western Christianity; a member of a society based on Western Christianity.
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(historical) An Arian Gothic bishop (ca. 311–383), who translated the Bible into the Gothic language
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Pertaining or related to this religious order.
adj
Alternative form of Xaverian [Pertaining or related to this religious order.]
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