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[ US /ˌkɑŋɡɹəˈɡeɪʃən/ ]
[ UK /kˌɒŋɡɹɪɡˈe‍ɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
  1. a group of people who adhere to a common faith and habitually attend a given church
  2. an assemblage of people or animals or things collected together
    a congregation of children pleaded for his autograph
    a great congregation of birds flew over
  3. the act of congregating

How To Use congregation In A Sentence

  • It was of a suitable Ash Wednesday character and left the congregation feeling sober and a little cast down.
  • Bishop Bernard Fellay revealed to ZENIT that the congregation told him to expect the publication of a statement issued "motu proprio" (on his own initiative) by Benedict XVI on the new structure of Ecclesia Dei before June 20. Fellay: Restructuring of Ecclesia Dei Imminent
  • This is important for determining the extent to which the congregation may participate in the prayer.
  • Another member of the congregation is believed to have been on the coach trip.
  • Every year, he held a week of evangelistic meetings in his own congregation.
  • He knew some members of the congregation, including the president, grew restive during his discourse, and would have preferred a more oratorical, hortative style, but he felt his type of sermon was more in keeping with his basic function of teacher, implicit in the word "rabbi. Saturday the Rabbi Went Hungry
  • The church has a spacious yard on the right side where several leafy trees grow and which are used as a parking space for the congregation on Sunday.
  • Our congregations as a gathered priesthood meet for the purpose of being equipped for mission in the world.
  • This Greek congregation afterwards bought a church in Brooklyn (St. Elias, 1892), and there was no Ruthenian church in Manhattan until the Greek Catholic church of St. George was opened in 1905. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • Efforts to add to the magazine an insert with news of the local congregations were greeted with consternation: the opposition was deemed to be far more dangerous that it really was.
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