#Christian_church__church__Christianity  a group of Christians; any group professing Christian doctrine or belief; "the church is debating the issue of women priests"
  supertype:  #religion__faith  institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him"
  member:  #Christian
  subtype:  #Catholic_Church  any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church
     subtype:  #Roman_Catholic_Church__Roman_Catholic__Western_Church__Church_of_Rome__Roman_Church  the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy
     subtype:  #Old_Catholic_Church  Catholic churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 18th century
     subtype:  #Eastern_Church__Byzantine_Church  the Catholic Church of the Byzantine Empire
     subtype:  #Eastern_Orthodox_Church__Orthodox_Church__Orthodox_Catholic_Church__Eastern_Church  derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites
        subtype:  #Greek_Orthodox_Church__Greek_Church  state church of Greece; an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church
        subtype:  #Russian_Orthodox_Church  independent with its own Patriarch of Moscow; until 1917 the established church
     subtype:  #Uniat_Church__Uniate_Church  any of several Eastern churches acknowledging papal authority but retaining their own rites and canon law
  subtype:  #Coptic_Church  the ancient Christian church of Egypt
  subtype:  #Protestant_Church__Protestant  the Protestant churches and denominations collectively
     subtype:  #Pentecostal_religion  any fundamentalist Protestant church that uses revivalistic methods to achieve experiences comparable to the Pentecostal experiences of the first Christian disciples

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