- Church
- Church building
- Convent
- Monastery
- Monastery or convent
- Religious house
- A monastery or society of persons of either sex, secluded
from the world and devoted to religion and celibacy; also, the monastic
building or buildings.
- Church member
- One of a religious body, embracing several branches, who
look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second
Adventists.
- Church area
- Church district
- Congregation
- Subdivision of a diocese
- That circuit of ground committed to the charge of one
parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein.
- The same district, constituting a civil jurisdiction, with
its own officers and regulations, as respects the poor, taxes, etc.
- An ecclesiastical society, usually not bounded by
territorial limits, but composed of those persons who choose to unite
under the charge of a particular priest, clergyman, or minister; also,
loosely, the territory in which the members of a congregation live.
- Church officials
- Churchmen
- Ministry
- Priesthood
- The body of men set apart, by due ordination, to the
service of God, in the Christian church, in distinction from the laity;
in England, usually restricted to the ministers of the Established
Church.
- Learning; also, a learned profession.
- The privilege or benefit of clergy.