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Latin Church

American  

noun

  1. the Roman Catholic Church.


Latin Church British  

noun

  1. the Roman Catholic Church

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Above all, the feudal system would have a long legacy in forming the basis of later political structures, and the Latin Church would be the essential European intellectual and spiritual institution for centuries to come.

From Textbooks Jan. 1, 2020

The Latin Church treated them with more favour, but it was not until 1546 that they were formally admitted into the canon of the Church of Rome by a decree of the Council of Trent.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 2 Amiel to Atrauli by Various

To him more than any other must be attributed the formal reunion with the Latin Church, which was the happy issue of that Council.

From The Century of Columbus by James J. Walsh

Thus began the great split between the Papacy and the Byzantine Empire, between western and eastern Europe, between the Latin Church and the Greek.

From A Short History of Italy (476-1900) by Henry Dwight Sedgwick

The Latin Church and the Greek Church became and remained thereafter distinct and frankly antagonistic.

From A Short History of the World by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells

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