English-Dutch translations for Catholic Church

• Katholieke Kerk
  Dit amendement belastert het hoofd van de katholieke kerk. This amendment maligns the head of the Catholic Church.
  Mevrouw Senyszyn beschuldigde de katholieke kerk van vrouwenonderdrukking. Mrs Senyszyn accused the Catholic Church of oppressing women.
  De rooms-katholieke kerk is voor een groot deel gedwongen ondergronds gegaan. The Roman Catholic Church has largely been driven underground.

Definition of Catholic Church

• The Catholic Church, which consists of 24 particular churches in full communion with the Pope as the Bishop of Rome
• Literally "universal church", the whole body of Christendom, especially before the division into Western and Eastern churches
• Any Christian denomination that identifies explicitly as "Catholic" based on its affirmation of the Nicene Creed, such as any of the Anglican Churches

Examples

• The Catholic Church is the largest Christian church, comprising almost half of all Christians in the world.

Related words

• Catholic
• Catholicism
• Anglo-Catholic
• anticatholic
• catholicon
• catholicity
• Catholically
• catholicos
• recatholicization
• Catholicize