eastern church

Questions about eastern church

What does eastern church mean?

eastern church means "derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for eastern church?

Close synonyms include Orthodox Church, Orthodox Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Orthodox, Byzantine 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 eastern church a common word?

eastern 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.