Catholic Church
Largest Christian Church, made up of 24 autonomous Churches in communion with the Pope, part of the Latin Church aka Latin Christianity a.k.a. western Christianity
Also known as Roman Catholic Church · Roman Apostolic Catholic Church · Roman Rite Catholic Church
- Instance of
- Part of
- Country
- Founded
- 1st century
- , 33
- Website
Overview
All data
242 statements · 24% with external sources · numbers in brackets are citations
- Members / parts
- Latin Church
- Chaldean Catholic Church
- Coptic Catholic Church
- Syriac Catholic Church
- Maronite Church
- Melkite Greek Catholic Church
- Syro-Malabar Church
- Syro-Malankara Catholic Church
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- Romanian Greek Catholic Church
- Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Ruthenian Greek Catholic Church
- Ethiopian Catholic Church
- Slovak Greek Catholic Church
- Eritrean Catholic Church
- Hungarian Greek Catholic Church
- Bulgarian Greek Catholic Church
- Greek Byzantine Catholic Church
- Italo-Albanian Catholic Church
- Greek Catholic Church of Croatia and Serbia
- Macedonian Greek Catholic Church
- Albanian Greek Catholic Church
- Russian Greek Catholic Church
- Belarusian Greek Catholic Church
- Armenian Catholic Church
- Catholic laity
- Catholic clergyman
- Catholic theology
- OpenStreetMap tag
- denomination=catholic
- Chair
- Leo XIV(since 2025) replaces: Pope Francis
- Member count
- 1.27B(2025)
- 1.41B(2023)
- 1.28B(2015)
- Formed in
- Jerusalem located in: Judaea · country: Roman Empire
- Native label
- Ecclesia Catholica Romana
- Short name
- röm.-kath.
- Significant event
- Nicene Creed(since 0325)
- East-West Schism(1054)
- Western Schism(1378–1417)
On other databases
128 identifiers linking Catholic Church across the web's reference databases
- Alexander Turnbull Library ID209014
- Analysis & Policy Observatory term ID54096
- ArchINFORM keyword ID2566
- Article ID in the Lithuanian Universal Encyclopedia Onlinekataliku-baznycia
- ASC Leiden Thesaurus ID294903631
- BabelNet ID00016777n
- BAnQ authority ID0000000628
- BBC News topic IDcdnmn3z7mz6t
- BBC Things ID4ae316de-db81-4614-b428-fe9e98652fbd
- BeWeb entity ID192
- BHCL UUID318063f8-8d50-47f0-98e2-6bb3f7c954b7
- Bibliothèque nationale de France ID118691560
- BIBSYS ID90054429
- BNCF Thesaurus ID8294
- Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online IDkatholische-kirche
- Canadiana Name Authority IDncf10009350
- CANTIC ID981058511857506706
- Cathopedia article IDChiesa_cattolica
- CiNii Research ID1140563741654307200
- CNA topic IDcatholic-church
- CoBiS author ID95a5yja38danygu695b5yc1g74r3ccr
- Colon ClassificationQ62
- Corpus Corporum author IDEcclesia_Romana_Catholica
- Der Spiegel topic IDcatholic_church_en
- Dewey Decimal Classification282
- Dialnet author ID4768238
- Digital Scriptorium Catalog item IDQ425
- DPLA subject termCatholic Church
- DR topic IDden-katolske-kirke
- EDIT16 catalogue author ID6731
- Encyclopædia Britannica Online IDtopic/Roman-Catholicism
- Encyclopedia of Korean Culture IDE0008156
- ERR keyword ID544565
- Euronews topic IDcatholic-church
- FactGrid item IDQ22233
- FAST ID531720
- Femiwiki ID34287
- FES digital collections entity ID339569
- France 24 topic ID (French)église-catholique
- Freebase ID/m/02vxy_
- GND ID2009545-4
- Google News topics IDCAAqIggKIhxDQkFTRHdvSkwyMHZNREoyZUhsZkVnSmxiaWdBUAE
- Great Aragonese Encyclopedia ID13415
- Great Norwegian Encyclopedia IDden_romersk-katolske_kirke
- Great Russian Encyclopedia portal IDrimsko-katolicheskaia-tserkov-f98639
- Harper's tagcatholic-church
- Hill Museum & Manuscript Library IDorganization/723226405005
- Iconclass notation11P3141
- IdRef ID026445158
- IMDb keywordroman-catholic
- ISNI0000000121577632
- Istrapedia ID1386
- J9U entity ID987007294548605171
- Jewish Encyclopedia ID (Russian)14613
- JSTOR topic ID (archived)roman-catholic-church
- Kalliope-Verbund (GND) ID2009545-4
- KBpedia IDCatholicChurch
- Klexikon article IDKatholische_Kirche
- Krugosvet article (archived)kultura_i_obrazovanie/religiya/RIMSKO-KATOLICHESKAYA_TSERKOV.html
- Larousse IDdivers/Église_catholique/117736
- Lex IDkatolske_kirker
- Libraries Australia ID35026602
- Library of Congress Authorities IDn79041716
- Libris-URIdbqsqmjx5sgkkmw
- McClintock and Strong Biblical Cyclopedia IDR/roman-catholic-church
- MPPDA Digital Archive organisation ID35
- Museum-digital person/organization ID62945
- Museum-digital tag ID51762
- NACSIS-CAT author IDDA01157711
- National Library of Brazil ID000448323
- National Library of Chile ID000002400
- National Library of Iceland ID000053008
- National Library of Ireland IDvtls000111727
- National Library of Israel ID (old)000591487
- National Library of Latvia ID000045564
- National Library of Poland MMS ID9810575585705606
- National Library of Portugal ID920560
- National Library of Spain SpMaBN IDXX244723
- NBM authority ID5621
- NDL Authority ID00537972
- NE.se IDromersk-katolska-kyrkan
- New Georgia Encyclopedia IDarts-culture/catholic-church
- New York Post topic IDcatholic-church
- New York Times topic IDorganization/roman-catholic-church
- NL CR AUT IDkn20010710145
- NMVW ID7407
- NSK (VIAF) ID000038335
- NSK ID981005671176809366
- Online PWN Encyclopedia ID3921205
- Open Library IDOL7447A
