church visible

noun

Theology.

1. the entire body of Christian believers on earth.

Word History and Origins

Origin of church visible¹

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.

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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!”

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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.

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

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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.

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