uniate church

1. 1.

   any of several churches in eastern Europe or the Middle East that acknowledge papal authority but retain their own liturgy

   SynonymsUniat Church

   BroaderCatholic Church

Questions about uniate church

What does uniate church mean?

uniate church means "any of several churches in eastern Europe or the Middle East that acknowledge papal authority but retain their own liturgy".

What is another word for uniate church?

Close synonyms include Uniat 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 uniate church a common word?

uniate 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.