ecclesia
Americannoun
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ecclesiae
plural
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an assembly, especially the popular assembly of ancient Athens.
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a congregation; church.
noun
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(in formal Church usage) a congregation
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the assembly of citizens of an ancient Greek state
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Etymology
Origin of ecclesia
1570–80; < Latin < Greek ekklēsía assembly, equivalent to ékklēt ( os ) summoned ( ek- ec- + klē-, variant of kal-, stem of kaleîn to call, + -tos past participle suffix) + -ia -ia
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Another name for a cathedral church is ecclesia mater, indicating that it is the mother church.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various
The sacerdotal theory.—Broadly speaking, however, there are two outstanding views as to the scope and function of the ecclesia, or church of Jesus.
From The New Theology by R. J. (Reginald John) Campbell
If what I have already said be true, this is the idea which was in the mind of Jesus when He founded His ecclesia.
From The New Theology by R. J. (Reginald John) Campbell
Church.—The word used in Holy Scripture for Church is ecclesia, from the Greek word ek-kaleo, meaning to call out.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller
The use of the term ecclesia came originally from the calling out of Israel from Egypt; "out of Egypt have I called my Son;" this is the first use of the word.
From The American Church Dictionary and Cyclopedia by William James Miller
Similar development of the idea of the one ecclesia as including all members of all local ecclesiae does not lead St Paul to regard membership of the universal church as invisible.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
The service in question is taken from an early 15th-century pontifical in the Cambridge University Library as printed by W. Makell in Monumenta ritualia ecclesiae Anglicanae, and ed., vol. i. pp. 195-239.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 10 "David, St" to "Demidov" by Various
Besides some graceful epistles in the style of Fortunatus, he wrote some long poems, and notably a whole history in verse of the church at York: Versus de patribus, regibus et sanctis Eboracensis ecclesiae.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
During this period, too, the Gallican Church adopted the collection of councils and decretals, called later the Codex canonum ecclesiae Gallicanae, which she continued to preserve.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 8 "France" to "Francis Joseph I." by Various
A parson, persona ecclesiae, is one that hath full possession of all the rights of a parochial church.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Sir William Blackstone
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