Congregational church

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noun Any Protestant church run independently by its own congregation, especially one in the United Church of Christ, the National Association of Congregational Christian Churches, or the Conservative Congregational Christian Conference.

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A recently created parish softball team—part of a league formed with a local Congregational church—has a roster of twenty-five players, and about twelve show up per game.

American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010
The Methodist church where we were married was torn down and the Methodists took over the old Congregational church.

The Wife of My Youth Herrick Kimball 2005
The Methodist church where we were married was torn down and the Methodists took over the old Congregational church.

Archive 2005-12-01 Herrick Kimball 2005
"I'd get the insurance on it, as the Congregational church didn't."

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various
Socinianism, and near the beginning of the present century there was but a single orthodox Congregational church in Boston.

The Way of Salvation in the Lutheran Church 1887
William Hooper, a member of a Congregational church in Boston.

Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884