denomination
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Catholics overtook Methodists as the largest denomination in the nation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 18, 2026
Levy plays Nicky, a pastor at a sparsely attended suburban New Jersey church of no evident denomination.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 15, 2026
Neither of them made any substantive changes to core Roman Catholic doctrine, but when you’re the bishop of Rome and the head of the world’s largest single religious denomination, practice matters more than theory.
From Salon • Apr. 5, 2026
It is the third largest Christian denomination after Catholicism and the Eastern Orthodox Church, giving its leaders a huge platform when speaking about issues such as climate change, human rights, or efforts for global peace.
From BBC • Mar. 2, 2026
As Equiano explained, “These overseers are indeed for the most part persons of the worst character of any denomination of men in the West Indies.”
From "Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science" by Marc Aronson
Vocabulary lists containing denomination
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
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