ecclesia
Americannoun
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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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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 Miller, William James
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 Campbell, R. J. (Reginald John)
Commenda, or ecclesia commendata, is a living commended by the crown to the care of a clerk, to hold till a proper pastor is provided for it.
From Commentaries on the Laws of England Book the First by Blackstone, William, Sir
He did indeed firmly maintain the fundamental idea of pietism, ecclesiolæ in ecclesia, but in his mind it gained a wider significance than pietism had given it.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
In his tenth year he entered the Halle Institute under Francke, where the pietistic idea of the need of the ecclesiolæ in ecclesia took firm possession of his heart.
From Church History, Vol. 3 of 3 by Kurtz, J. H.
He wrote the De jure Meneviensis ecclesiae in support of the claims of his diocese.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 1 "Gichtel, Johann" to "Glory" 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 Blackstone, William, Sir
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
Thus we learn that when Thurstan, Archbishop of York, visited the Pope at Blois in 1120, he was accompanied by “duo archidiaconi ecclesiae nostrae et scholasticus.”
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William
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
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