catholic

adj. belonging to the Roman Catholic Church

n. member of the Roman Catholic Church

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek adjective , meaning "general; universal" (cf. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon).In the context of Christian ecclesiology, it has several usages: The word commonly refers to the members, beliefs, and practices of the Roman Catholic Church, including all those sui juris particular Churches that are in full communion with the Pope (Bishop of Rome), namely the Latin Rite and twenty-two Eastern Catholic Churches. The latter include the Ukrainian, Greek, Greek Melkite, Maronite, Ruthenian Byzantine, Coptic Catholic, Syro-Malabar, Syro-Malankara, Chaldean, and Ethiopic Rites.The Eastern Orthodox Church also identifies itself as Catholic, as in the title of The Longer Catechism of the Orthodox, Catholic, Eastern Church.Most Reformation and post-Reformation Churches use the term Catholic (sometimes with a lower-case c) to refer to the belief that all Christians are part of one Church, regardless of denominational divisions. It is in line with this interpretation, which applies the word "catholic"/"universal" to no one denomination, that they understand the phrase "One Holy Catholic and Apostolic Church" in the Nicene Creed, the phrase "the catholic faith" in the Athanasian Creed, and the phrase "holy catholic church" in the Apostles' Creed.The term is used also to mean those Christian Churches which maintain that their Episcopate can be traced unbrokenly back to the Apostles, and consider themselves part of a broad catholic (or universal) body of believers. Among those who regard themselves as "Catholic", but not "Roman Catholic" , are Anglicans, and some small groups such as the Old Catholic Church, the Polish National Catholic Church, the Independent Catholic, the Ancient Catholic and Liberal Catholic Churches, as well as Lutherans (though the latter prefer the lower-case "c," and, like Anglicans, stress that they are both Protestant and Catholic).The term can refer to the one (singular number) Church that, according to , Jesus told the Apostle Peter he would build: "And I tell you, you are כיפא (Kepha) (Aramaic for "rock"), and on this rock I will build my Church, and the powers of death shall not prevail against it. I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."Some use the term Catholic to distinguish their own position from a Calvinist or Puritan form of Reformed-Protestantism. These include High Church Anglicans, known also as "Anglo-Catholics", 19th century Neo-Lutherans, 20th century High Church Lutherans or evangelical-catholics and others.
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Noun
1. a member of a Catholic church
(hypernym) Christian
(hyponym) Anglican Catholic
(member-holonym) Catholic Church
Adjective
1. of or relating to or supporting Catholicism; "the Catholic Church"
(pertainym) Catholicism, Catholicity

Adjective
1. free from provincial prejudices or attachments; "catholic in one's tastes"
(similar) broad-minded

(n.)
An adherent of the Roman Catholic church; a Roman Catholic.
  

(n.)
A person who accepts the creeds which are received in common by all parts of the orthodox Christian church.
  

(a.)
Universal or general; as, the catholic faith.
  

(a.)
Of or pertaining to, or affecting the Roman Catholics; as, the Catholic emancipation act.
  

(a.)
Not narrow-minded, partial, or bigoted; liberal; as, catholic tastes.
  

adj.
1. universal
عام , کُل , سب , کُل کلّاں
2. liberal
بے لگاؤ , بے تعصب , آزاد منش
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n.
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