Home > Church (disambiguation)

• Church — a building used for religious services, usually referring specifically to those for Christian worship. See also temple for more general information.
• In Christian theology, the Body of Christ composed of Jesus Christ and all Christians, living and dead. This is another sense of the word used in the New Testament, also used by the Nicene and Apostles' Creeds ("... one holy catholic and apostolic church ..."), and the sense used by many Christians. The theology of the Church is called ecclesiology.
• An assembly of Christian believers who worship together. This is one translation of the Greek Koine word "Ecclesia," used in the New Testament, and is the sense used by many Christians.
• A religious organization or denomination within Christendom (such as the Catholic Church or Lutheran Church).
• A surname. Those with the surname "Church" include the logician Alonzo Church (famous for the Church-Turing thesis), the painter Frederic Edwin Church, the writer Francis Pharcellus Church (famous for the editorial " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa ClausYes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus was the subheading over an editorial in the September 21, 1897 New York Sun which has become extremely famous. In 1897, Dr. Philip O'Hanlon, a coroner's assistant on Manhattan's Upper West Side, was faced with a minor"), and George W. Church, Sr. , founder of Church's ChickenChurch's Chicken is a U. chain of fast food restaurants specializing in fried chicken founded by George W. Church, Sr. on April 17, 1952 in San Antonio, across the street from The Alamo. The company now has more than 1,500 locations worldwide. It is well-, a chain of franchised fried chicken restaurants.
• The Church , a popDepending on context, pop music is either an abbreviation of popular music or, more recently, a term for a sub- genre of it. The subgenre of pop is perhaps the most widely crowd-pleasing form of all popular music. The defining musical characteristics of t band formed in SydneyThis is about the city of Sydney in Australia. For other meanings, see Sydney (disambiguation), or Sidney. Sydney Opera House Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australia's largest and oldest city, founded in 1788., AustraliaAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring count in the 1980sMillennia: 1st millennium 2nd millennium 3rd millennium Centuries: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s 2030s Years: 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 Events and trends.

Several non-Christian religious groups also use the word "church" in self-reference; for instance, the Church of All WorldsThe Church of All Worlds (CAW) is a religious group whose stated mission is to evolve a network of information, mythology, and experience that provides a context and stimulus for re-awakening Gaia, and re-uniting her children through tribal community dedi, the Church of ScientologyThe Church of Scientology was founded by author L. Ron Hubbard as an organization dedicated to the practice of Scientology, an "applied religious philosophy" formulated by Hubbard. It was first incorporated in the United States as a nonprofit organization, or the Buddhist Churches of America . The term is, however, not generally used by Muslim, Jewish, or Hindu groups for either the worshipers or the building. See mosque, synagogue, and temple for buildings of worship of these and other faiths.