Church

Church most commonly refers to:

• Christian Church, body of Christians, taken as a whole
• Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
• Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
• Church (building), a Christian place of religion

Church may also refer to:

Religion

Catholic

• Catholic Church, body of Christians as perceived by Catholic ecclesiology
• Church sui iuris, recognised as sui iuris by the Holy See
• Particular church, headed by a bishop or equivalent within the Catholic Church
• Great Church, historical term for before the East-West schism in 1054

Orthodox

• Eastern Orthodox Church
• Greek Orthodox Church
• Oriental Orthodoxy
• Russian Orthodox Church

Protestant

• Christian denomination, a Christian organization with distinct doctrine and practice
• Broad church, description of an organization encompassing a broad range of opinion on doctrine and practice and therefore like the Anglican Church which gave rise to the description
• Simple church, an Evangelical Christian movement

Unitarian and Universalists

• Unitarian church, a religious group which follows Unitarianism, Unitarian Universalism and Free Christianity
• Universalist Church of America, a Christian Universalist religious denomination in the United States

Sociology of religion

• Church (sociology of religion), a religious denomination that is all-embracing of religious expression within a society
• State church, a Christian denomination officially endorsed by a government

Other

• Church magazine, pastoral theology magazine published by the National Pastoral Life Center

People

• Church (surname), people with the surname Church

Places

United Kingdom

• Church (Liverpool ward), a Liverpool City Council ward
• Church (Reading ward), a Reading Borough Council ward
• Church (Sefton ward), a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward
• Church, Lancashire, England

United States

• Church, Iowa, United States, an unincorporated community
• Church Lake, a lake in Minnesota

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Church (Red vs. Blue), a fictional character in the video web series Red vs. Blue
• Church, a cat in Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary
• Church, a meeting of SOA members in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy

Film

• The Church (1989 film), an Italian horror film directed by Michele Soavi
• The Church (2018 film), an American horror film directed by Dom Franklin

Music

Groups

• Chvrches, an electropop trio from Glasgow, Scotland
• The Church (band), an Australian psychedelic rock band formed in Sydney in 1980

Albums

• Church of Hawkwind, a 1982 album by English space rock band Hawkwind
• The Church (Mr. Oizo album), a 2014 album by French electronic musician Mr. Oizo
• The Church, the name under which The Church's 1981 debut album, Of Skins and Heart, was released internationally

Songs

• "Church" (T-Pain song)
• "Church" (Alison Wonderland song), 2018
• "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
• "Church", a song by Fall Out Boy on the album Mania

Other uses

• Church (programming language), a LISP-like probabilistic programming language
• Church's (disambiguation)
• Church Committee, 1975 United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities

See also

• Cathedral
• Catholic Church (disambiguation)
• Church architecture
• Church visible
• Church invisible
• Communion (religion)
• Four Marks of the Church
• Full communion
• Mother church
• One true church
• Oriental Churches (disambiguation)
• Orthodox Church (disambiguation)
• Religious organization
• Roman Catholic Church (disambiguation)
• Sister church