Definitions of Christendom
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the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia)“for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom”
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Christianity
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a group of persons associated by some common tie or occupation and regarded as an entity
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