Particular Church

The term particular Church is ambiguous.

Within the Roman Catholic Church, there are several canonical meanings, the term is also used, outgoing, as in the declaration Dominus Iesus.

  • Partikularkirche (CIC: particularis ecclesia ), a diocese or the equivalent unit
  • Patriarchal Church ( CCEO: patriarchalis ecclesia ), a Uniate Church, headed by a Patriarch
  • Rite Church (CIC: ecclesia ritualis [ sui iuris ], CCEO: ecclesia sui iuris ), a part of the church in its own right

In addition to this legal use of the term is also used in the ecumenical movement use.

  • Particular Church ( ecumenism ), viewing the different Christian faiths and denominations as part of a postulated, not institutionally authored, ideal Catholic and Apostolic Church
  • Disambiguation
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