Definition of Roman church

1. Noun. The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy.

Exact synonyms: Church Of Rome, Roman Catholic, Roman Catholic Church, Western Church
Examples of category: Indulgence, Divine Office, Little Office, Office Of The Dead, Placebo, Confession, Beatification, Canonisation, Canonization, Mass, Novena, Stations, Stations Of The Cross, Monstrance, Ostensorium, Pallium, Ultramontanism, Sursum Corda, Breviary, Missal, Vulgate, Paternoster, Mass Card, Spiritual Bouquet, Kiss Of Peace, Pax, Immaculate Conception, Immaculate Conception Of The Virgin Mary, Gradual, Curia, College Of Cardinals, Sacred College, Rota, Apostolic Delegate, Bishop, Brother, Cardinal, Dean, Doctor, Doctor Of The Church, Domestic Prelate, Internuncio, Monsignor, Nuncio, Papal Nuncio, Penitent, Postulator, Provincial, Seminarian, Seminarist, Sister, Beguine, Vicar-general, Ambrose, Saint Ambrose, St. Ambrose, Aquinas, Saint Thomas, Saint Thomas Aquinas, St. Thomas, St. Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas, Athanasius, Athanasius The Great, Saint Athanasius, St. Athanasius, Augustine, Augustine Of Hippo, Saint Augustine, St. Augustine, Basil, Basil Of Caesarea, Basil The Great, St. Basil, St. Basil The Great, Becket, Saint Thomas A Becket, St. Thomas A Becket, Thomas A Becket, Baeda, Beda, Bede, Saint Baeda, Saint Beda, Saint Bede, St. Baeda, St. Beda, St. Bede, The Venerable Bede, Apostle Of Germany, Boniface, Saint Boniface, St. Boniface, Winfred, Wynfrith, Bruno, Saint Bruno, St. Bruno, Domingo De Guzman, Dominic, Saint Dominic, St. Dominic, Francis Of Assisi, Giovanni Di Bernardone, Saint Francis, Saint Francis Of Assisi, St. Francis, St. Francis Of Assisi, Gregory, Gregory I, Gregory The Great, Saint Gregory I, St. Gregory I, Gregory, Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory Of Nazianzen, St. Gregory Of Nazianzen, Ignatius Of Loyola, Loyola, Saint Ignatius Of Loyola, St. Ignatius Of Loyola, Irenaeus, Saint Irenaeus, St. Irenaeus, Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus, Hieronymus, Jerome, Saint Jerome, St. Jerome, John Chrysostom, St. John Chrysostom, Holy Year, January 1, Solemnity Of Mary, Circumcision, Feast Of The Circumcision, January 1, Canonical Hour, Great Schism
Generic synonyms: Catholic Church
Terms within: Rome, Curia, College Of Cardinals, Sacred College
Member holonyms: Roman Catholic

Lexicographical Neighbors of Roman Church

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Rolls-Royce
Rolls-Royces
Rolodex
Rom.
Roma
Romagnolo
Romaic
Romaji
Roman
Roman Catholic
Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Pope
Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholics
Roman Church
Roman Emperor
Roman Empire
Roman Jakobson
Roman Legion
Roman Osipovich Jakobson
Roman Republic
Roman Rite
Roman alphabet
Roman alphabets
Roman arch
Roman architecture
Roman bath
Roman baths
Roman building

Literary usage of Roman church

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1897)
"FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE PAPACY AND THE NIGHT OF THE roman church. THE Middle Ages may be summed up in one word, Rome. All the currents of mediaeval ..."

2. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
""The anti- Protestant movement in the roman church " says a Protestant writer, "which is generally called the Counter-Reformation, is really at least as ..."

3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"So far as organization is concerned, there can be no question that the mantle of the men who made the Roman Empire has fallen upon the roman church; ..."

4. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
""The anti- Protestant movement in the roman church" says a Protestant writer, ... The roman church is indeed, like the State, a political power, ..."

5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The full name of the Roman communion is the " Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and roman church." It numbers over two hundred millions of souls, or about one-half ..."

6. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"The roman church kept alive the ideas of the Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire. C. The influence of the Renaissance. Even during the middle ages the ..."

7. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"The roman church kept alive the ideas of the Roman Empire. The Holy Human Empire. C. The influence of the Remis*ance. Even during the middle ages the memory ..."

8. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1897)
"FIVE HUNDRED YEARS OF THE PAPACY AND THE NIGHT OF THE roman church. THE Middle Ages may be summed up in one word, Rome. All the currents of mediaeval ..."

9. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
""The anti- Protestant movement in the roman church " says a Protestant writer, "which is generally called the Counter-Reformation, is really at least as ..."

10. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"So far as organization is concerned, there can be no question that the mantle of the men who made the Roman Empire has fallen upon the roman church; ..."

11. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
""The anti- Protestant movement in the roman church" says a Protestant writer, ... The roman church is indeed, like the State, a political power, ..."

12. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The full name of the Roman communion is the " Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, and roman church." It numbers over two hundred millions of souls, or about one-half ..."

13. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"The roman church kept alive the ideas of the Roman Empire. The Holy Roman Empire. C. The influence of the Renaissance. Even during the middle ages the ..."

14. The Theory of the State by Johann Caspar Bluntschli, David George Ritchie, Percy Ewing Matheson, Richard Lodge (1885)
"The roman church kept alive the ideas of the Roman Empire. The Holy Human Empire. C. The influence of the Remis*ance. Even during the middle ages the memory ..."

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