The imagined community of Christian believers under the authority of the Catholic Church
the collective body of Christians throughout the world and history (found predominantly in Europe and the Americas and Australia); "for a thousand years the Roman Catholic Church was the principal church of Christendom"
The profession of faith in Christ by baptism; hence, the Christian religion, or the adoption of it
1 The realm of countries in the world where {apostate} Christianity is the official or predominant religion 2 The people who are members of Christendom's churches <<Christendom dismisses God's personal name as unimportant >>
the view of a community of Christian nations in Europe under the joint authority of the Pope and Emperor, dominant in medieval western Europe; the parts of the world in which Christianity is the most common religion
The domain of Christ, a social and religious complex with specific boundaries, created by Constantine Dominant characteristic is, to identify the Gospel with the norms of the prevailing social structure
That portion of the world in which Christianity prevails, or which is governed under Christian institutions, in distinction from heathen or Mohammedan lands