Catholic Church (disambiguation)
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Catholic Church may refer to:
- Catholic Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, known as the Pope, including the Latin Church and the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches
- Other churches expressing apostolic origins and traditions of catholicity, such as:
- Eastern Orthodox Church, maintains the traditional concept of eastern-orthodox catholicity, self-designating as Eastern-Orthodox Catholic Church
- Oriental Orthodox Church, maintains the traditional concept of oriental-orthodox and miaphysite catholicity, self-designating as Oriental-Orthodox Catholic Church
- Assyrian Church of the East and Ancient Church of the East, maintains its own traditional concept of nestorian catholicity, also self-designating as Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of the East and Ancient Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of the East respectfully
- Lutheran Churches, maintain their own traditional concept of catholicity, holding that it represents the Catholic Church under Lutheran theology
- Anglican Communion, maintains the Anglican concept of catholicity under leadership by English/British Monarchy
- Independent Catholic denominations that self-subscribe as [eastern/western] Catholic Churches
- Old Catholic Church denominations that reject changes by First Vatican Council and also self-subscribed as the Original Catholic Churches
- Catholic church building
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