Western Church

noun

1. the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes with the Anglican Church, or, more broadly, the Christian churches of the West.

Western Church

noun

1. the part of Christendom that derives its liturgy, discipline, and traditions principally from the patriarchate of Rome, as contrasted with the part that derives these from the other ancient patriarchates, esp that of Constantinople
2. the Roman Catholic Church, sometimes together with the Anglican Communion of Churches

Word History and Origins

Origin of Western Church¹

First recorded in 1620–30

Example Sentences

Then the direction taken by the Western Church led to absolute power over the bodies and souls of men.

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The Western Church, we feel, must answer for that to God as she can.

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It was he who taught the Western Church to glorify God in song.

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Not only France, but the whole of the Western Church was agitated by it, and its far-reaching effects have hardly yet passed away.

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At no period had the official hierarchy of the Western Church been more out of touch with common righteousness and piety.

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