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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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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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Perhaps the most significant progress the churches have made since Dr. Blake's speech is in ensuring the racial unity of the prospective superchurch.

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Thus the Council is in no sense a superchurch.

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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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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.

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