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Christian liturgy

Pattern for worship used by a Christian congregation or denomination

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Christian liturgy is a pattern for worship used by a Christian congregation or denomination on a regular basis. The term liturgy comes from Greek and means "public work". Within Christianity, liturgies descending from the same region, denomination, or culture are described as ritual families or rites.

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“Christian liturgy” enters the record as pattern for worship used by a Christian congregation or denomination. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Christian, liturgy and Pattern can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Christian liturgy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.