Church

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Church is an English word for a Christian religious institution or building but it may refer to:

Religion [edit]

• Place of worship, a specially designed structure or consecrated space where individuals or a group of people such as a congregation come to perform acts of devotion, veneration, or religious study.
  • Church (building) A Christian place of worship
• Church service, a formalized period of communal worship
• Church music written for performance in church
• Christian Church, refers to the whole Christian religious tradition through history.
  • Any of several more specific Christian denominations
    • Particular church, ecclesial communities within Catholic Christianity
    • Simple church, an Evangelical Christian movement
  • Ecclesiology, the study of the church in Christian theology
• A religious denomination
• State church, a religious body or creed officially endorsed by that nation's government
• Local church, the body made up of a congregation, its members and clergy
• Christian clergy, formal Christian religious leadership
• Church, a sociological classification of religious movements
• Broad church, one organization encompassing a broad range of opinion (from Anglican Church) used in politics

People [edit]

• Church (surname), people with the surname Church
• Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer, nicknamed Gilly or Church

Places [edit]

• Church, Lancashire, England
• Church, Iowa, United States, unincorporated community
• Church (Liverpool ward)
• Church (Sefton ward)

Popular music [edit]

• The Church (band)
  • The Church, an alternate name for their debut album, Of Skins and Heart
• Chvrches, an electropop trio from Glasgow, Scotland
• "Church" (song), by T-Pain
• "Church", a song by Galactic on the album Coolin' Off
• "Church", a song by OutKast on the album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
• "The Church", a song by Hawkwind on the album Church of Hawkwind

Other uses [edit]

• Church Committee, the common term referring to the United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities (chaired by Senator Frank Church (D-ID) in 1975)
• Church (Red vs. Blue), a fictional character
• The Church (film)
• Church, a cat in the novel Pet Sematary
• The probabilistic programming language Church (programming language), named after Alonzo Church.

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