Example sentences of "belong to the [adj] church " in BNC.

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1 I now wanted desperately to belong to the Christian church in general ( which to me , from my Free Church background , was what baptism implied ) while not able to belong specifically to the Anglican Church ( which was what confirmation implied ) so long as that church discriminated against women .
2 I am in the process of compiling a catalogue for the collection of 20th century religious art belonging to the Methodist Church , a collection that was created in the early 1960s .
3 The kingdom of Sicily , it was agreed , belonged to the Roman Church .
4 The church belonged to the royal church at Hambleton and served the queen 's estates in Stamford .
5 Time was , he remembered , when she had attended the Greek Orthodox Church , where he also had gone when small , but its splendour had palled when she had realized that more fashionable people belonged to the United Church .
6 Miss Yonge , author of the famous tear jerker , The Heir of Redclyffe was no less devout , but belonged to the High Church party and practised greater moderation .
7 The Deacons belonged to the Sandemanian church , whose most famous member , Michael Faraday [ q.v. ] , took an interest in their son .
8 Even though i belong to the catholic church , that 's my feeling , erm and my experience , I would say , since living in .
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