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Adventist, Second Adventist
a member of Christian denomination that expects the imminent advent of Christ
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gentile
a Christian
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gentile, goy, non-Jew
a Christian as contrasted with a Jew
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Protestant
an adherent of Protestantism
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Friend, Quaker
a member of the Religious Society of Friends founded by George Fox (the Friends have never called themselves Quakers)
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Catholic
a member of a Catholic church
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Old Catholic
a member of the church formed in the 19th century by German Catholics who refused to accept the infallibility of the Pope
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Copt
a member of the Coptic Church
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Apostle
(New Testament) one of the original 12 disciples chosen by Christ to preach his gospel
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Apostelic Father, Apostle
any important early teacher of Christianity or a Christian missionary to a people
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arianist
an adherent of Arianism (the belief that Jesus Christ was not truly God)
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born-again Christian
a Christian who has experienced a dramatic conversion to faith in Jesus
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communicant
a person entitled to receive Communion
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Melchite, Melkite
an Orthodox Christian or Uniate Christian belonging to the patriarchate of Alexandria or Antioch or Jerusalem
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Melchite, Melkite
an eastern Christian in Egypt or Syria who adheres to the Orthodox faith as defined by the council of Chalcedon in 451 and as accepted by the Byzantine emperor
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Nazarene
an early name for any Christian
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Shaker
a member of Christian group practicing celibacy and communal living and common possession of property and separation from the world
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Tractarian
a follower of Tractarianism and supporter of the Oxford movement (which was expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times')
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WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant
a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination
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Anabaptist
adherent of Anabaptism
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Christian Scientist
a member of the Protestant church founded in the United States by Mary Baker Eddy
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Anglican Catholic
a member of the Anglican Church who emphasizes its Catholic character
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Greek Catholic
a member of the Greek Orthodox Church
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Roman Catholic
a member of the Roman Catholic Church
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Uniat, Uniate, Uniate Christian
a member of the Uniat Church
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Baptist
follower of Baptistic doctrines
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Congregationalist
a member of the Congregational Church
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Nonconformist, chapelgoer
a Protestant in England who is not a member of the Church of England
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Anglican
a Protestant who is a follower of Anglicanism
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Episcopalian
a member of the Episcopal church
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fundamentalist
a supporter of fundamentalism
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Jehovah's Witness
believer in imminent approach of the millennium; practitioner of active evangelism
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Latter-Day Saint, Mormon
a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Methodist
a follower of Wesleyanism as practiced by the Methodist Church
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Orangeman
a member of a society founded in Ireland in 1795 to uphold Protestantism and the British sovereign
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Pentecostal, Pentecostalist
any member of a Pentecostal religious body
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Bishop of Rome, Catholic Pope, Holy Father, Roman Catholic Pope, Vicar of Christ, pontiff, pope
the head of the Roman Catholic Church
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Presbyterian
a follower of Calvinism as taught in the Presbyterian Church
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Puritan
a member of a group of English Protestants who in the 16th and 17th centuries thought that the Protestant Reformation under Elizabeth was incomplete and advocated the simplification and regulation of forms of worship