Latin Church
Proper noun
Meaning
Latin Church
(Catholicism) One of the 24 particular churches (sui juris) in full communion with the Holy See and the rest of the Catholic Church which uses the Latin liturgical rites.
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Individual servitude, however abject, will not satisfy the Latin Church. The State must also be a slave.
In the Latin Church of the Catholic Church, baptism by submersion is used in the Ambrosian Rite and is one of the methods provided in the Roman Rite of the baptism of infants.
Latin Church Catholics generally baptize by affusion (pouring); Eastern Catholics usually by submersion, or at least partial immersion.
In 1196, the Latin Church was established, and the Orthodox Cypriot Church experienced a series of religious persecutions.
Eastern Catholic Churches either follow the same rules as the Latin Church or require celibacy only for bishops.
The water that in the Latin Church is prescribed to be mixed with the wine must be only a relatively small quantity.