Christendom
noun
1 Christendom
The collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia):
— For a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom.
synonym: Christianity.
Dutch: Christenheid, christenheid
Roget 983a:
orthodoxy;
strictness,
soundness,
religious truth,
true faith;
truth
etc.
494;
soundness of doctrine.
Christianity,
Christianism†;
Catholicism,
Catholicity;
the faith once delivered to the saints;"
hyperorthodoxy
etc.
984†;
iconoclasm.
The Church;
Catholic Church,
Universal Church,
Apostolic Church,
Established Church;
temple of the Holy Ghost;
Church of Christ,
body of Christ,
members of Christ,
disciples of Christ,
followers of Christ;
Christian,
Christian community;
true believer;
canonist
etc.
(theologian)
983;
Christendom,
collective body of Christians.
canons
etc.
(belief)
484;
thirty nine articles;
Apostles' Creed,
Nicene Creed,
Athanasian Creed†;
Church Catechism;
textuary†.
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Roget 995:
church,
churchdom;
ministry,
apostleship†,
priesthood,
prelacy,
hierarch†,
church government,
christendom,
pale of the church.
clericalism,
sacerdotalism†,
episcopalianism,
ultramontanism†;
theocracy;
ecclesiology†,
ecclesiologist†;
priestcraft†,
odium theologicum [Lat.].
monachism†,
monachy†;
monasticism,
monkhood†.
[Ecclesiastical offices and dignities]
pontificate,
primacy,
archbishopric†,
archiepiscopacy†;
prelacy;
bishopric,
bishopdom†;
episcopate,
episcopacy;
see,
diocese;
deanery,
stall;
canonry,
canonicate†;
prebend,
prebendaryship†;
benefice,
incumbency,
glebe,
advowson†,
living,
cure;
rectorship†;
vicariate,
vicarship;
deaconry†,
deaconship†;
curacy;
chaplain,
chaplaincy,
chaplainship;
cardinalate,
cardinalship†;
abbacy,
presbytery.
holy orders,
ordination,
institution,
consecration,
induction,
reading in,
preferment,
translation,
presentation.
popedom†;
the Vatican,
the apostolic see;
religious sects
etc.
984.
council
etc.
696;
conclave,
convocation,
synod,
consistory,
chapter,
vestry;
sanhedrim,
conge d'elire [Fr.];
ecclesiastical courts,
consistorial court,
court of Arches.
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