Organizational body within a Christian denomination which is given official status or operated by a state.
1 There is, indeed, no state church in the empire outside Great Britain.
2 The Lutheran state church in Sweden naturally viewed the Preacher as a charlatan.
3 The Independents and Presbyterians accepted the idea of a state church .
4 A national state church has no right to be thus limited and exclusive.
5 The man is also suing a New York state church and the local diocese.
6 Social prestige would remain almost entirely within the state church .
7 The Quakers and Baptists were opposed to any state church .
8 Books were also censored for matter against the state church .
9 There he encounters the persecution of the state church .
10 The task imposed upon the new state church taxed its powers to their utmost tension.
11 They were about one tenth of the population and did not believe in a state church .
12 The Church of England is a state church .
13 T'an-yao, head of the state church since 460, induced the state to attach state slaves, i.e.
14 There is no state church in Canada.
15 After he was invited to Dresden in 1686, the state church indicated a decided disapprobation of his measures.
16 Baptism and separation from the state church had at last become almost every thing to these dear brethren.
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