Sentence examples for Church from high-quality English sources.

• The Anglican Church is made up of concepts developed by the Church of England.

• He created a new national church called the Church of England (or Anglican Church).

• … heritage of the church (High Church), became influential in the Episcopal Church in the 1840s.

• The main church, known as The Mother Church, is the First Church of Christ, Scientist, in Boston, Massachusetts.

• …United Secession Church and the Relief Church, which had developed from groups that left the Church of Scotland in the 18th century.

• In 1921 the state severed its old relation with the Church of Scotland, leaving it the national church but not the established state church.

• In 1900 the Free Church united with the United Presbyterian Church (formed in 1847 by earlier dissenting groups) to form the United Free Church.

• The church originated from a movement begun in 1866 within the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, to organize the black members into an independent church.

Use Church in a sentence.

• American Lutheran Church (ALC), Lutheran church in North America that in 1988 merged with two other Lutheran churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

• It was formed through the union of the United Secession Church and the Relief Church, which had developed from groups that left the Church of Scotland in the 18th century.

• It was created in 1961 by the merger of three churches: the (original) American Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church.

• In 1939 the Methodist Church was organized by union of the Methodist Episcopal Church; the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and the Methodist Protestant Church.

• The Oxford movement in the Church of England, which emphasized the Roman Catholic heritage of the church (High Church), became influential in the Episcopal Church in the 1840s.

• Episcopal Church in the United States of America (ECUSA), also called the Episcopal Church or Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, autonomous church in the United States.

• In 1962 the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (with about 24,000 members), the United Lutheran Church in America, the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the Suomi Synod merged into the Lutheran Church in America.

• After years of discussions with the United Lutheran Church in America and the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, the American Lutheran Church merged with the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church to form the American Lutheran Church.

Church sentence examples

• The Syriac Orthodox Church is in full communion with the other Oriental Orthodox churches (the Armenian Apostolic Church, the Coptic Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox Church, the Eritrean Orthodox Church, and the Malankara Orthodox Church) and is a member of the World Council of Churches.

• The Lutheran Church in America, for example, was created in 1962 by the merger of four Lutheran churches: the American Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Suomi Synod; organized by Finnish immigrants in 1890), and the United Lutheran Church in America.

• In 1962, however, the Augustana church (with more than 600,000 members) merged with the United Lutheran Church in America, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Suomi Synod) to form the Lutheran Church in America, which in turn merged into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1988.

• Examples of such free churches are the Baptists in Scotland, where the established church is Presbyterian; the Presbyterians in England, where the Anglican Church is established; the Waldensian Church in Italy, where the Roman Catholic Church is established; and the Mission Covenant Church in Sweden, where the established church is Lutheran.