free church
noun
a church free from state control.
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[free church]
/ ˈfri ˈtʃɜrtʃ /
noun
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(sometimes initial capital letters) a church free from state control.
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(sometimes initial capital letters) a dissenting or nonconforming church.
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(initial capital letters) Also Free Kirk (in Scotland) the church established by those who left the Church of Scotland in 1843.
Free Church
British
noun
Etymology
Origin of free church
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35
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We stand for a free pulpit and a free church.
From Time Magazine Archive
A 1967 graduate of the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, York has been backed by a number of local churches in operating a "free church" that ministers to Berke ley hippies.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was thinking, wouldn't a chapel—that is, a little church—a little free church, at Meadow Park be a good thing?
From Pine Needles by Susan Warner
This answer was considered by the free church evasive; and its more ardent supporters on the spot pronounced the course of the local presbytery jesuitical and dishonest.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
Otago, in the south, was founded by the Scotch, and the free church established at Dunedin.
From Five Years in New Zealand 1859 to 1864 by Robert B. Booth
In a December 2024 letter to Bass, the Rev. Mark Hopper of the Evangelical Free Church expressed similar concerns and asked the mayor to stop the project.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 21, 2026
Rev Firth, who was a priest at St Cuthbert's church in Darlington, left the Church of England in 2020, and is now a vicar for the Free Church of England.
From BBC ● Mar. 12, 2024
Many were friends from Siasi Tonga Tau’ataina, the Free Church of Tonga, Tuipulotu’s family being long-time members of the branches in Compton and Inglewood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 5, 2024
Ms Forbes is a member of the Free Church of Scotland, which follows a strict interpretation of the Bible, and has described how she has often had to "tiptoe around" her faith.
From BBC ● Feb. 24, 2023
On the formation of the Free Church in 1843, Cunningham was appointed professor of church history and divinity in the New College, Edinburgh, of which he became principal in 1847 in succession to Thomas Chalmers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various
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