Catholic Church (disambiguation)

Template:Other uses2 The term Catholic Church may refer to:

• Catholic Church in full communion with the Bishop of Rome, known as the Pope, including the Latin Church and the 23 Eastern Catholic Churches
• Other churches expressing apostolic origins and traditions of catholicity, such as:
  • Eastern Orthodox Church, maintains the traditional concept of eastern-orthodox catholicity, self-designating as Eastern-Orthodox Catholic Church
  • Oriental Orthodox Church, maintains the traditional concept of oriental-orthodox catholicity, self-designating as Oriental-Orthodox Catholic Church
  • Assyrian Church of the East and Ancient Church of the East, maintains its own traditional concept of nestorian catholicity, also self-designating as Holy Apostolic Catholic Church of the East
  • Lutheran Churches, maintain their own traditional concept of catholicity, holding that it represents the Catholic Church under Lutheran theology
  • Anglican Communion, maintains the Anglican concept of catholicity, in which it sees itself as a branch of the Catholic Church
  • Independent Catholic denominations that self-subscribe as [eastern/western] Catholic Churches.
    • Old Catholic Church denominations that reject changes by First Vatican Council and also self-subscribed as Original Catholic Churches

See also

• Catholic (disambiguation)
• Roman Catholic Church (disambiguation)
• Orthodox Church (disambiguation)