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The French Catholic Church, or Catholic Church in France is part of the worldwide Catholic Church in communion with the Pope in Rome.Established in the 2nd century in unbroken communion with the bishop of Rome, it was sometimes called the "eldest daughter of the church" (French: fille aînée de l'Église).
Catholicity (from Ancient Greek: καθολικός, romanized: katholikós, lit. 'general', 'universal', via Latin: catholicus) [1] is a concept pertaining to beliefs and practices that are widely accepted by numerous Christian denominations, most notably by those Christian denominations that describe themselves as catholic in accordance with the Four Marks of the Church, as expressed in the ...
Ordinariate for Eastern Catholics in France, vested in the Metropolitan Archbishop of capital Paris.; Armenian Catholic Eparchy of Sainte-Croix-de-Paris, Armenian Rite, with Cathédrale Sainte-Croix de Paris des Arméniens in Paris, for France, immediately subject to the Patriarch of Cilicia, but not part of his province.
According to long-standing legend, Mary, Martha, Lazarus, and some companions, who were expelled by persecutions from the Holy Land, traversed the Mediterranean in a frail boat with neither rudder nor mast and landed at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer near Arles.
The Catholic Church is "the Catholic Communion of Churches, both Roman and Eastern, or Oriental, that are in full communion with the Bishop of Rome ()." [2] The church is also known by members as the People of God, the Body of Christ, the "Temple of the Holy Spirit", among other names. [2]
Paris was a Christian centre at an early date, its first apostles being St. Denis [1] and his companions, Sts. Rusticus and Eleutherius. Until the Revolution the ancient tradition of the Parisian Church commemorated the seven stations of St. Denis, the stages of his apostolate and martyrdom:
The terms catholic, catholicism, and catholicity are closely related to the use of the term Catholic Church. (See Catholic Church (disambiguation) for more uses.) The earliest evidence of the use of that term is the Letter to the Smyrnaeans that Ignatius of Antioch wrote in about 107 to Christians in Smyrna.
Nicene; Catholic. Latin; Eastern; Old Catholic; Palmarian Catholic; Independent Catholic; Sedevacantism; Eastern Orthodox; Oriental Orthodox; Church of the East ...