byzantine church

1. 1.

   the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire

   SynonymsEastern Church

   BroaderCatholic Church

Questions about byzantine church

What does byzantine church mean?

byzantine church means "the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire".

What is another word for byzantine church?

Close synonyms include Eastern Church. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is byzantine church a common word?

byzantine church is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.