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    The Latin Church ( Latin: Ecclesia Latina) is the largest autonomous ( sui iuris) particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics. The Latin Church is one of 24 churches sui iuris in full communion with the pope; the other 23 are collectively referred to as the Eastern ...

  2. www.wikiwand.com › en › Latin_ChurchLatin Church - Wikiwand

    The Latin Church is the largest autonomous particular church within the Catholic Church, whose members constitute the vast majority of the 1.3 billion Catholics. The Latin Church is one of 24 churches sui iuris in full communion with the pope; the other 23 are collectively referred to as the Eastern Catholic Churches, and have approximately 18 million members combined.

  3. Latin Church. Latin Church .—The word Church ( ecclesia) is used in its first sense to express the whole congregation of Catholic Christendom united in one Faith, obeying one hierarchy in communion with itself. This is the sense of Matt., xvi, 18; xviii, 17; Eph., v, 25, 27, etc. It is in this sense that we speak of the Church without ...

  4. www.wikiwand.com › en › Latin_Rite_Catholic_ChurchLatin Church - Wikiwand

    The Latin Church is the largest autonomous particular church within the Catholic Church, The Latin Church is directly headed by the Pope in his role as the Bishop of Rome, whose cathedra as a bishop is located in the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran in Rome, Italy. The Latin Church historically developed within, and has strongly influenced Western culture; as such, it is also known as the ...

  5. The Latin Rite, or Latin Church as it is called in canon 1 of the Code of canon law, is the part of the Church that follows the roman rite in liturgy, has its own special canonical discipline, and is subject to the bishop of Rome as patriarch of the West. (see rome, patriarchate of.) History. At the beginning of the Christian Era, the ...

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