Church (disambiguation)

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Contents 1 Religion 2 Places 3 People 4 Music 5 Fiction 6 See also

Church may refer to:

[edit] Religion

Christian Church, the worldwide body of Christians or a local Christian body of people

• One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church
• Church militant and church triumphant
• Kingdom of God
• Priesthood of all believers
• Church history, see History of Christianity
• Christian metaphors for the Church
  • Body of Christ
  • Bride of Christ
• Ecclesia (Church) in Christian theology, both a particular body of faithful people, and the whole body of the faithful
• Ecclesiology, the study of the theological understanding of the Christian church

Church, the body of people who share a faith or a religious organization, (usually within Christianity)

• Religious denomination, a group of people sharing the same faith
• Christian denomination, a Christian of people sharing the same faith and organization
  • List of Christian denominations by number of members
  • List of the largest Protestant church bodies of the world
• Adherents of a denominational family or movement within Christianity or other religion, see Denominationalism
• The Church, a generic term for the leaders of organized religion, regardless their religion or theology.
• High Church, such as Anglicanism
• Low Church, such as Evangelicalism
• House Church, an assembly of Christians gathering in a home or on grounds not normally used for worship
• Pub Church
• Emerging church
• Megachurch, a large church having about 2,000 or more attendants for a typical service
• Kirk, can mean "church" in general or the Church of Scotland in particular
• MyChurch, an online Christian social network
• Churching of women, name of a ceremony wherein a blessing is given to mothers after recovery from childbirth
• Evangelism, the Christian practice of proselytization
• Synagogue, a Jewish house of assembly and prayer
• Temple, a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities
• Mosque, a place of worship for followers of Islam
• Church of Scientology, organization devoted to the Scientology belief system

Church (building), a building used for religious services, usually referring specifically to those for Christian worship

• Church architecture
• Cathedral
• Basilica
• Chapel
  • Sistine Chapel
• Stave church
• Post church
• Palisade church
• Duomo
• Monastery
• Eastern Orthodox church architecture
• Cathedral architecture of Western Europe
• Architecture of the medieval cathedrals of England
• Polish Cathedral style
• Three-spired cathedrals in the United Kingdom
• Cathedral diagram
  • Narthex
  • Nave
  • Iconostasis
  • Sanctuary
• List of basilicas
  • Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  • Hagia Sophia
  • St. Peter's Basilica
• List of cathedrals
• List of cathedrals in the United Kingdom
• List of largest church buildings in the world
• List of tallest churches in the world
• List of highest church naves
• Places of worship

[edit] Places

• Church, Lancashire, a suburb of Accrington, England

[edit] People

• Albert T. Church (born 1947), Vice-Admiral in the United States Navy
• Alonzo Church (1905–1995), logician, famous for the Church-Turing thesis and lambda calculus
• Captain Benjamin Church (1639–1718), colonial officer during King Philip's War
• Benjamin Church (1734–1776), first Surgeon General of the Continental Army and grandson of Captain Benjamin Church
• Bill Church, American musician
• Brad Church
• Charlotte Church (born 1986), British soprano singer and talk show host
• Doug Church, video-game designer
• Ellen Church
• Forrester Church (born 1948), American minister, son of Senator Frank Church
• Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906), American writer (famous for the editorial Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus)
• Frank Church (1924–1984), four-term U.S. Senator from Idaho.
• Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), landscape painter
• George W. Church, Sr., founder of Church's Chicken, a chain of franchised fried chicken restaurants
• James E. Church, pioneered the techniques used to measure snow and forecast seasonal water supplies
• John A. Church, an expert on sea-level and its changes
• Judith Church (born 1953), a politician in the United Kingdom
• Louis K. Church
• Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954), American writer and civil-rights activist
• Mike Church (born 1962) , a Southern United States radio commentator
• Richard Church (general) (1784–1873), a British military officer and general in the Greek army
• Richard William Church (1825–1890), an English divine, nephew of the general
• Richard Church (poet) (1893–1972), an English poet and man of letters
• Robert Reed Church (1839–1912), the first African-American millionaire
• Ryan Church (born 1978), an American baseball player
• Thomas Dolliver Church (1902–1978), American landscape architect
• Thomas Haden Church (born 1961), American actor in television and film
• Thomas Langton Church (1870–1950), Canadian politician
• Walter G. Church, Sr., member of the North Carolina General Assembly
• William Church (c. 1778–1863), American inventor who patented a typesetting machine in 1822
• Adam Gilchrist, retired Australian cricketer nicknamed 'Church'

[edit] Music

• The Church, an Australian rock band.
• Church, weekly meetings of the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
• "The Church", a song by Hawkwind from their 1982 album Church of Hawkwind.
• "Church", a song by OutKast from their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
• "Church", a song by Galactic from their 1998 album Coolin' Off.
• "Church", a song by T-Pain from his 2007 album Epiphany.
• "church", a song by the preachers from there 2006 album ' ' singing for the hevans.

[edit] Fiction

• Church (Red vs. Blue), a fictional character.
• Church, the family cat in Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary.
• The Church, set up by The Order in Silent Hill.

[edit] See also

• Church and State
• Churchianity
• Christianese