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n. (context Roman Catholic canon law English) Any of the individual constituent ecclesial communities in full communion with Rome that are part of the Catholic Church as a whole.
Wikipedia
In Catholic canon law, a particular church is an ecclesiastical community headed by a bishop or someone recognised as the equivalent of a bishop.
There are two kinds of particular churches:
- Local particular churches. A diocese or eparchy is the most familiar form of such local particular churches, but there are other forms, including that of a territorial abbacy, an apostolic vicariate and an apostolic prefecture.
- Autonomous particular churches, also known as particular churches sui iuris. In this context the descriptors autonomous and sui iuris ( Latin) are synonymous, each meaning "of its own law". These are aggregations of local diocesan churches that share a specific liturgical, theological and canonical tradition. They have also been called "particular Churches or rites". The largest such autonomous particular church is the Latin Church. The others are referred to collectively as the Eastern Catholic Churches. The larger Eastern Catholic churches are headed by a bishop who has the title and rank of patriarch or major archbishop.
Usage examples of "particular church".
No man by nature is bound unto any particular church or sect, but everyone joins himself voluntarily to that society in which he believes he has found that profession and worship which is truly acceptable to God.
I'd seen this particular church design several times before, and I pictured ecclesiastical blueprints making the rounds for the price of the postage.
As a purely military figure, the captain general would have no personal prestige bound up with any particular church.