[Tagging] Feature Proposal - RFC - catholic

Guy Godfroy guy.godfroy at gugod.fr
Mon Aug 9 22:17:01 UTC 2021


Once for all, I'm only talking about catholic church, not protestant or orthodox.

There is an official list of churches which are in full communion with the great catholic church, i.e. all the catholic rites (including roman) are one and single dénomination "catholic".

10 août 2021 00:03:28 Greg Troxel <gdt at lexort.com>:

> 
> Not sure this is a good source, but a definition of denomination at
> 
>   https://www.learnreligions.com/christian-denominations-700530
> 
> says
> 
>   A denomination in Christianity is a religious organization (an
>   association or fellowship) that unites local congregations in a
>   single, legal and administrative body. Members of a denominational
>   family share the same beliefs or creed, participate in similar worship
>   practices and cooperate together to develop and preserve shared
>   enterprises.
> 
> Wikipedia says more or less the same:
> 
>   A religious denomination is a subgroup within a religion that operates
>   under a common name, tradition, and identity.
> 
>   The term refers to the various Christian denominations (for example,
>   Eastern Orthodox, Catholic, and the many varieties of
>   Protestantism). It is also used to describe the five major branches of
>   Judaism (Karaite Judaism, Orthodox, Conservative, Reform, and
>   Reconstructionist). Within Islam, it can refer to the branches or
>   sects (such as Sunni, Shia),[1][2] as well as their various
>   subdivisions such as sub-sects,[3] schools of jurisprudence,[4]
>   schools of theology[5] and religious movements.[6][7]
> 
>   The world's largest religious denomination is Catholic Church[8]
>   or/and Sunni Islam.[9][10]
> 
> 
> So my view, not yet firmly held, is that saying that catholic is a
> denomination that contains Roman Catholic and various national Eastern
> Orthodox churches is incorrect.



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