Each were different and most identified with a particular church.

This particular church, a very big one, offers an example of hearing too much.

A person is a member of or belongs to a particular church.

I wondered, but there was nothing more on that particular church.

The school belonged to the town rather than a particular church.

"For instance, did your uncle go to a particular church, even as a child?"

All his children were baptized at home, since he did not belong to a particular church.

The practitioners knew themselves as members of particular churches or movements, and not by a single term.

The number of those actually affiliated to particular churches appeared to be rising.

In modern usage, the word often refers to the governing body of a particular church, whether its members are meeting or not.