Church family (disambiguation)

Church family means:

• “A group of churches standing close to one another, liturgically belonging together as a unity”; see church family

• churches that are in full communion with one another , e.g. B .:
  • the Coptic , Ethiopian , Syrian and Armenian churches as a community of miaphysitist churches; see also ancient oriental churches
  • the fellowship of the Anglican and Old Catholic Churches as an equivalent to the term denomination and, in a broader sense, their full communion with each other and with the Iglesia Filipina Independente

See also: rite family

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.