Definition of Church roll

1. Noun. A list of the members of church.

Generic synonyms: Roll, Roster

Lexicographical Neighbors of Church Roll

church crawlers
church doctrine
church festival
church hat
church key
church keys
church member
church mode
church mouse
church music
church officer
church planter
church planters
church planting
church property
church roll (current term)
church school
church service
church services
church tower
church year
churchane
churchdom
churchdoms
churche
churched
churches
churchful
churchfuls
churchgoer

Literary usage of Church roll

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Modern Methods in Church Work: The Gospel Renaissance by George Whitefield Mead (1896)
"For this purpose it is necessary to keep a church roll. But a church roll is more than the old-time notion, "a history of important dates. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities: Comprising the History, Institutions by William Smith, Samuel Cheetham (1880)
"The duties of the widows who had thus a separate place upon the church roll were of two kinds. For some of them the model was the Anna of the Gospel " which ..."

3. Life and Labour of the People in London by Charles Booth (1903)
"The result of this revision is shown below : — Names on church roll, December, 1898 541 Admissions to the Church during 1899— By Profession 18 By Transfer 4 ..."

4. The Story of the Lall Bazar Baptist Church, Calcutta: Being the History of by Edward Steane Wenger (1908)
"There is also a small church roll book extant at Serampore, ... The earliest church roll extant in Calcutta is one which was prepared in 1825, ..."

5. A Select Library of Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church by Philip Schaff, Henry Wace (1895)
"As to the woman on the Church-roll, whom he caused to be chastised with cudgels,- though we do not believe that she died eight months afterwards, yet, ..."

6. The New and Old Immigrant on the Land: A Study of Americanization and the by Charles Luther Fry (1922)
"Inactive Member—a person on the church roll who resides within the parish area of the church but who neither attends its services or contributes to its ..."

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