Definition of Christendom. Meaning of Christendom. Synonyms of Christendom

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Definition of Christendom

Christendom
Christendom Chris"ten*dom, n. [AS. cristend?m; cristen a Christian + -dom.] 1. The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it. [Obs.] --Shak. 2. The name received at baptism; or, more generally, any name or appelation. [Obs.] Pretty, fond, adoptious christendoms. --Shak. 3. That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands. The Arian doctrine which then divided Christendom. --Milton A wide and still widening Christendom. --Coleridge. 4. The whole body of Christians. --Hooker.

Meaning of Christendom from wikipedia

- Christendom refers to Christian states, Christian-majority countries or countries in which Christianity is dominant or prevails. Following the spread...
- Christendom College is a Roman Catholic liberal arts college founded in 1977 in Front Royal, Virginia, United States, located in the Shenandoah Valley...
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- Defending Constantine: The Twilight of an Empire and the Dawn of Christendom is a 2010 book by Peter Leithart which examines Constantine the Great and...
- The Seven Champions of Christendom is an epithet referring to St. George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, St. Denis, St. James Boanerges, St. Anthony the Lesser...
- five patriarchs of the Pentarchy, "the proposed government of universal Christendom by five patriarchal sees under the au****es of a single universal empire...
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- in 325 and 381 respectively, and ratified as the universal creed of Christendom by the First Council of Ephesus in 431. The Chalcedonian Definition,...
- the majority of Christians have lived in Western nations, once called Christendom, and often conceptualized as "European Christian" civilization. A post-Christian...
- Millennium: The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom is a historical study of the Middle Ages by the po****r historian Tom Holland. It was...