Church may refer to, or mean:
Religion
Christian Church, the worldwide body of Christians or a local Christian body of people
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
- Christian denomination, a Christian of people sharing the same faith and organization
- Adherents of a denominational family or movement within Christianity or other religion, see Denominationalism
- 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
- House Church, an assembly of Christians gathering in a home or on grounds not normally used for worship
- Pub Church
- Emerging church
- Megachurch, a large church having about 2,000 or more attendants for a typical service
- Kirk, can mean "church" in general or the Church of Scotland in particular
- MyChurch, an online Christian social network
- Churching of women, name of a ceremony wherein a blessing is given to mothers after recovery from childbirth
- Evangelism, the Christian practice of proselytization
- Synagogue, a Jewish house of assembly and prayer
- Temple, a structure reserved for religious or spiritual activities
- Mosque, a place of worship for followers of Islam
- Church of Scientology, organization devoted to the Scientology belief system
Church (building), a building used for religious services, usually referring specifically to those for Christian worship
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Places
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, retired Australian cricketer nicknamed 'Church'
Music
Fiction
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