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| Agnus Dei |
a prayer in the Roman Catholic or Anglican church beginning with these words, or the accompanying music. [1/2 definitions] |
| aisle |
a side section in a church, separated from the nave by a row of pillars or columns. [1/2 definitions] |
| Anabaptist |
a member of any of several Protestant sects formed in the sixteenth century that baptized only adult believers, opposed military service, and advocated the separation of church and state. [1/2 definitions] |
| Anglican |
of or pertaining to the Church of England or churches of the same origin and communion. [2 definitions] |
| Anglo- |
Anglican, or of the Church of England. [1/2 definitions] |
| antichurch |
combined form of church. |
| anticlerical |
opposed to the influence of the clergy or church in public affairs, esp. politics. |
| antiestablishment |
opposed to the established hierarchy, system, or leadership of a large government, corporation, church, or the like. |
| antipope |
a person who declares himself pope in opposition to the pope elected by church laws. |
| apocrypha |
(cap.) a group of fourteen books of the Old Testament that are rejected by Judaism, and considered by Protestants as uncanonical, eleven of which are accepted by the Roman Catholic Church. [1/2 definitions] |
| apostolate |
the office, duties, mission, or term of activity of an apostle, or, esp., of the pope as head of the Apostolic See in the Roman Catholic Church. |
| apse |
a projection at the end of a church or other building, usu. having a domed or arched roof. |
| archbishop |
a highest ranking bishop who officiates over a church diocese or province. |
| archdeacon |
a church official ranking just below a bishop and responsible for the administration of a diocese. [2 definitions] |
| archimandrite |
in the Eastern Church, the head of a monastery or monasteries. [2 definitions] |
| Ave Maria |
this prayer itself, used in the Roman Catholic church. [1/2 definitions] |
| banns |
a public announcement in church of an upcoming marriage. |
| baptism |
a Christian rite in which an applicant for membership to the church is sprinkled with or immersed in water, signifying purification. [1/2 definitions] |
| baptistery |
a part of a church or a separate building used for administering baptism. [1/2 definitions] |
| baptize |
to administer the Christian rite of immersion in or sprinkling with water, to purify symbolically and admit to church membership. [1/4 definitions] |
| basilica |
a large, oblong building of ancient Rome with a series of semicircular apses at one end, used as a public meeting hall or church. [2 definitions] |
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