English Dictionary

Great Church

固有名詞

歴史的

(historical) The orthodox Christian church of antiquity, after 380 C.E. the established church of the Roman Empire, especially as distinct from smaller Christian movements or heresies.

日本語の意味

古代の正統派キリスト教会、すなわち380年以降のローマ帝国で国教として確立された教会（それに対し、小規模なキリスト教運動や異端と区別される）

Scholars debate how the councils shaped the theology and institutional structure of the Great Church in late antiquity.

学者たちは、公会議が後期古代におけるローマ帝国の国教となった古代の正統派キリスト教会の神学と制度的構造をどのように形づくったかについて議論している。

意味（1）

(historical) The orthodox Christian church of antiquity, after 380 C.E. the established church of the Roman Empire, especially as distinct from smaller Christian movements or heresies.

Such was the view held within the Great Church of the third and fourth centuries, from which all our existing forms of Christianity can trace their descent.

意味（2）

(historical) Hagia Sophia before the fall of the Byzantine Empire or one of the churches that previously occupied its site, the Great Church of Constantinople.

We must remember that the Byzantine rite is basically the rite of the Great Church, and in a cathedral the size of Hagia Sophia to have done all this in the church itself just before the transfer of gifts would have taken an enormous amount of time.

意味（3）

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople.

1968, Steven Runciman, The Great Church in Captivity: A Study of the Patriarchate of Constantinople from the Eve of the Turkish Conquest to the Greek War of Independence:

the Great Church （ canonical ）