superchurch
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of superchurch
First recorded in 1990–95
Example Sentences
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Episcopal leaders are continuing to discuss the Blake-Pike proposals for a new superchurch encompassing six major Protestant bodies.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Disciples are one of six faiths seriously discussing Presbyterian Eugene Carson Blake's proposal to create a great new superchurch that would be both "catholic and Reformed."
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus the Council is in no sense a superchurch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Critics also grumble that superchurch clergy, astride their self-contained empires, are often completely independent of effective oversight from denominations or locally elected boards.
From Time Magazine Archive
In U.S. ecumenical circles, he is famed as author of the "Blake proposal" to unite his own Presbyterians with Methodists, Episcopalians and three other denominations in a vast Protestant superchurch.
From Time Magazine Archive
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