Western-church definition

(historical) The Christian church in much of the western part of the Roman Empire.
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That part of the Catholic Church which recognizes the pope and follows the Latin Rite; the Roman Catholic Church.
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Broadly, all the Christian churches of Western Europe and America.
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  • 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and early Romanesque periods it was an essential part of church furniture; but during the middle ages it was gradually superseded in the Western Church by the pulpit and lectern.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.

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