What does Catholic mean?
The Roman Catholic Church has long adopted the practice of describing itself as the Catholic Church as if it were the only one. Even by its own ecclesiology, it isn’t the only one as it recognises the Orthodox Churches as being catholic. Nevertheless, it is well engrained in the public mind that Catholic means Roman Catholic. In fact it means nothing of the kind. Catholic from the Greek word katholikos means universal. The catholic church is comprised of all those churches which have deacons, priests and bishops in the Apostolic Succession. That includes all Anglicans.
