title: Catholic Church (disambiguation)
text: # Catholic Church (disambiguation)
  
  The Catholic Church, sometimes called the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church body.
  
  Catholic Church may also refer to:
  
  * One of the 24 particular churches sui iuris that form the Catholic Church:
     * The Latin Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church or, historically, as the Western Church
     * The Eastern Catholic Churches, 23 Eastern churches in full communion with the Catholic Church
  * Independent Catholicism, churches that broke away from the Catholic Church
     * Churches within Old Catholicism
     * The Philippine Independent Church
  * Other churches expressing apostolic origins and traditions of catholicity, such as:
     * The Eastern Orthodox Church
     * The Oriental Orthodox Churches
     * The Assyrian Church of the East
     * The Ancient Church of the East
     * Churches within Anglicanism
  * Certain denominations in Protestantism
     * Churches within Lutheranism
  * State church of the Roman Empire
  