Western Church

noun

variants or Western church

1

: the churches of the West and especially of western Europe and the Americas : Western Christianity

2

: one of the churches of Western Christianity (as the church of the Latin Patriarchate)

Word History

First Known Use

1577, in the meaning defined at sense 1

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