church visible

American  

noun

Theology.

1. the entire body of Christian believers on earth.

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Etymology

Origin of church visible

First recorded in 1555–65

Example Sentences

Analysts did this by conducting a reverse image search a church visible in the background of the video, which matched to penal colony number six.

From BBC

And when Parsons saw him perform in Las Vegas on Friday night, she took a selfie with a friend from the audience with Church visible on stage in the background and captioned it: “Night made!”

From Washington Post

While, for this reason, the Church visible is called the kingdom of heaven, so the latter continues to bear the name of the Church even in the splendor of its eternal glory.

From Project Gutenberg

Nor could we imagine any source other than the Church invisible for an interpretation so noble of the Scriptures of the Church visible.

From Project Gutenberg

They want to make the church visible, so they wear clerical collars or other religious garb, like the albs, or white robes, that lay Christians may wear.

From New York Times