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