Church (disambiguation)
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Church may refer to:
[edit] Religion
- Church, the body of people who share a faith or a religious organization, usually within Christianity
- Religious denomination, a group of people sharing the same faith
- Church (building), a building used for religious services, usually referring specifically to those for Christian worship
- Christian Church, the worldwide body of Christians
- One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church
- Church militant and church triumphant
- Churching of women
- The Church, a generic term for the leaders of organized religion, regardless their religion or theology.
- High Church, such as Anglicanism
- Low Church, such as Evangelicalism
- Church architecture
[edit] Places
- Church, Lancashire, a city in England
[edit] People
- Albert T. Church (born 1947), Vice-Admiral in the United States Navy
- Alonzo Church (1905–1995), logician, famous for the Church-Turing thesis and lambda calculus
- Captain Benjamin Church (1639–1718), colonial officer during King Philip's War
- Benjamin Church (1734–1776), first Surgeon General of the Continental Army and grandson of Captain Benjamin Church
- Bill Church, American musician
- Brad Church
- Charlotte Church (born 1986), British soprano singer and talk show host
- Doug Church, video-game designer
- Ellen Church
- Forrester Church (born 1948), American minister, son of Senator Frank Church
- Francis Pharcellus Church (1839–1906), American writer (famous for the editorial Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus)
- Frank Church (1924–1984), four-term U.S. Senator from Idaho.
- Frederic Edwin Church (1826–1900), landscape painter
- George W. Church, Sr., founder of Church's Chicken, a chain of franchised fried chicken restaurants
- James E. Church, pioneered the techniques used to measure snow and forecast seasonal water supplies
- John A. Church, an expert on sea-level and its changes
- Judith Church (born 1953), a politician in the United Kingdom
- Louis K. Church
- Mary Church Terrell (1863–1954), American writer and civil-rights activist
- Mike Church (born 1962) , a Southern United States radio commentator
- Richard Church (general) (1784–1873), a British military officer and general in the Greek army
- Richard William Church (1825–1890), an English divine, nephew of the general
- Richard Church (poet) (1893–1972), an English poet and man of letters
- Robert Reed Church (1839–1912), the first African-American millionaire
- Ryan Church (born 1978), an American baseball player
- Thomas Dolliver Church (1902–1978), American landscape architect
- Thomas Haden Church (born 1961), American actor in television and film
- Thomas Langton Church (1870–1950), Canadian politician
- Walter G. Church, Sr., member of the North Carolina General Assembly
- William Church (c. 1778–1863), American inventor who patented a typesetting machine in 1822
- Adam Gilchrist, Australian cricketer nicknamed 'Church'
[edit] Music
- The Church, an Australian rock band.
- Church, weekly meetings of the Hells Angels motorcycle club.
- "The Church", a song by Hawkwind from their 1982 album Church of Hawkwind.
- "Church", a song by OutKast from their 2003 album Speakerboxxx/The Love Below.
- "Church", a song by Galactic from their 1998 album Coolin' Off.
- "Church", a song by T-Pain from his 2007 album Epiphany.
[edit] Fiction
- Church (Red vs. Blue), a fictional character.
- Church, the family cat in Stephen King's novel Pet Sematary.
- The Church, set up by The Order in Silent Hill.
[edit] See also
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