Local church may refer to: * Church, a congregation meeting in a particular location * Local churches (affiliation), a Christian group founded by Watchman Nee * Parish church, a local church united with other parishes under a bishop or presbyter *

Congregationalist polity Congregationalist polity, or congregational polity, often known as congregationalism, is a system of ecclesiastical polity in which every local church (congregation) is independent, ecclesiastically sovereign, or "autonomous". Its first articul ...

, a form of church organization by which each local church that governs itself independently * Particular church, Roman Catholic ecclesial community * "Local church" is the expression used to designate an autocephalous church in Eastern Orthodoxy

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