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superchurch

American  
[soo-per-church] / ˈsu pərˌtʃɜrtʃ /

noun

  1. a church housed in an extremely large structure and containing elaborate facilities.


Etymology

Origin of superchurch

First recorded in 1990–95

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The nation's largest Protestant body, the 14.6 million-member Southern Baptist Convention, last week overwhelmingly re-elected the Rev. Adrian Rogers, 54, pastor of a Memphis superchurch, as president.

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

Thus the Council is in no sense a superchurch.

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

Judaism, not through a new superchurch, but on the basis of "common interests, common historical memories and a sense of common destiny."

From Time Magazine Archive

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