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Congregationalism

Syllabification: (Con·gre·ga·tion·al·ism)
Definition of Congregationalism

noun

  • a system of organization among Christian churches whereby individual local churches are largely self-governing.

Derivatives

Congregationalist

noun & adjective

Congregationalism in other Oxford dictionaries

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