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Stained glass window in a Catholic church depicting St. Peter's Basilica in Rome sitting "Upon this rock," a reference to Matthew 16:18. The Catholic Church teaches that Christ founded only "one true Church", and that this one true Church is the Catholic Church with the bishop of Rome (the pope) as its supreme, infallible head and locus of communion. [8]
The Oriental Orthodox Church disagrees with both and claims to be the historical and organic continuation of the original Church founded by Christ and his apostles, the "one, holy, catholic, and apostolic" Church of the ancient Christian creeds and the only Church that has always kept the true Christology and faith declared by the first three ...
A number of Christian groups have called themselves the "True Church": True Jesus Church; True Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints;
The papal encyclical Mystici corporis (Pope Pius XII, 1943), expresses the dogmatic ecclesiology of the Catholic Church thus: "If we would define and describe this true Church of Jesus Christ—which is the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church–we shall find no expression more noble, more sublime, or more divine, than the phrase which ...
[51] [52] Each Eastern Orthodox church considers itself part of the one true church, and pre-denominational. Though they consider themselves pre-denominational, being the original Church of Christ before 1054, [ 53 ] [ 19 ] some scholars suggest the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic churches began after the East–West Schism .
The Glory of a True Church, and Its Discipline Display’d, London: John Robinson (1697) The Progress of Sin, Or the Travels of Ungodliness, London: J. Clarke (5th edition, 1736) The Travels of True Godliness, Boston: Lincoln & Edmands (Revised and Improved, 1831) Gold Refin’d, or, Baptism in Its Primitive Purity, London: Printed for the ...
The Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox communion and the Assyrian Church of the East each understands itself as the one and only original church. The claim to the title of the "one true church" relates to the first of the Four Marks of the Church mentioned in the Nicene Creed : "one, holy, catholic, and ...
Mystici corporis Christi states: "this true Church of Jesus Christ" and "the Mystical Body of Christ" is "the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic and Roman Church". [4] This position was later reaffirmed in Humani generis. [5] Lumen gentium does recognize that other Christian ecclesial communities have elements of sanctification and of truth.