col|le|gi|al|ism

col|le|gi|al|ism
col|le|gi|al|ism «kuh LEE jee uh LIHZ uhm», noun.
the theory of church government maintaining that the church is a voluntary association in which the highest ecclesiastical authority is vested in the whole society, and not in a clerical order or in the state.

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