superchurch
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of superchurch
First recorded in 1990–95
Example Sentences
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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.
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Thus the Council is in no sense a superchurch.
From Time Magazine Archive
Episcopal leaders are continuing to discuss the Blake-Pike proposals for a new superchurch encompassing six major Protestant bodies.
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Critics also grumble that superchurch clergy, astride their self-contained empires, are often completely independent of effective oversight from denominations or locally elected boards.
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In the six years since the Rev. Eugene Carson Blake first proposed the creation of a giant Protestant superchurch, participants in the annual Consultation on Church Union have spent their time sparring over preliminary issues.
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