Uniate Church
English
Alternative forms
- Uniat Church
Proper noun
Uniate Church (countable and uncountable, plural Uniate Churches)
- Any of several Christian Churches, mostly from Eastern Europe, that are in communion with the Roman Catholic Church, but use their own language and customs.
- For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:Uniate Church.
Synonyms
- Eastern Catholic Church
Hypernyms
- Catholic Church
Meronyms
- Uniat
- Uniate
Coordinate terms
- Eastern Orthodox Church
- Orthodox Church
- Roman Catholic Church
References
- Campbell, Gordon (2003), “Uniate Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the renaissance, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2005, →ISBN
- Bowker, John (2000), “Uniat(e) Churches”, in The concise Oxford dictionary of world religions, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2003, →ISBN: “More properly Eastern Catholic or Eastern-rite Catholic Churches.”
- Cross, Frank L.; Livingstone, Elizabeth A., editors (2005), “Uniat Churches”, in The Oxford dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd edition, Oxford [u.a.]: Oxford University Press, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 1669–1670
- "Uniate Church" in WordNet 3.0, Princeton University, 2006.