Church

Church may refer to:

Religion

• Church (building), is a building used for religious activities, particularly Christian worship service
• Church (sociology of religion), religious denominations that are all-embracing of religious expression within a society
• Christian Church, the whole Christian religious tradition through history
  • the western (Roman) Catholic Church, the largest Christian religious organisation.
    • Particular Church, an ecclesial community within Catholic Christianity
  • the eastern Orthodox Church
  • Broad church, (from Anglicanism) an organization encompassing a broad range of opinion on doctrine and practice
  • Local church, the body made up of a church congregation, its members and clergy
  • Simple church, an Evangelical Christian movement
  • State church, a Christian religious body or creed officially endorsed by a nation's government
• Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship

People

• Church (surname), people with the surname Church
• Adam Gilchrist (born 1971), Australian cricketer, nicknamed Gilly or Church

Places

UK

• Church (Liverpool ward), a Liverpool City Council ward
• Church (Reading ward), a Reading Borough Council ward
• Church (Sefton ward), a Metropolitan Borough of Sefton ward
• Church, Lancashire, England

US

• Church, Iowa, United States, an unincorporated community
• Church Lake, a lake in Minnesota

Art, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Church (Red vs. Blue), a fictional character in the video web series Red vs. Blue
• Church, a cat in Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary
• Church, a meeting of SOA members in the FX television series Sons of Anarchy

Film

• The Church (film), a 1989 Italian horror film directed by Michele Soavi

Music

Groups

• Chvrches, an electropop trio from Glasgow, Scotland
• The Church (band), an Australian psychedelic rock band formed in Sydney in 1980

Albums

• Church of Hawkwind, a 1982 album by English space rock band Hawkwind
• The Church (Mr. Oizo album), an album by French electronic musician Mr. Oizo
• The Church (The Church album), the name under which The Church's 1981 debut album, Of Skins and Heart, was released internationally

Songs

• "Church" (song), by T-Pain
• "Church", a song by Galactic on the album Coolin' Off
• "Church", a song by OutKast on the album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below
• "The Church", a song by Hawkwind on the album Church of Hawkwind

Computing and technology

• Church (programming language), a LISP-like probabilistic programming language

Organizations

• Church Committee, 1975 United States Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities

Other uses

• Church's (disambiguation)

See also

• Religious organisation