Western Church Definition

Western Church Sentence Examples

• These "apparelled albs" (albae paratae) continued in general use in the Western Church till the 16th century, when a tendency to dispense with the parures began, Rome itself setting the example.

• The Roman Catholic Ghegs appear to have abandoned the Eastern for the Western Church in the middle of the 13th century.

• In the Byzantine and early Romanesque periods it was an essential part of church furniture; but during the middle ages it was gradually superseded in the Western Church by the pulpit and lectern.

• Whether he meant it so or not, the saint's argument became a programme and an apologia for the imperializing of the Western Church under the leadership of Rome during the middle ages.

• But the Western Church was also more conservative than the Greek.