Daily Ancestorecclesia
Ecclesia is Latin for a church, a house of worship; ecclesiae means of the church.
Ecclesia comes from a Greek word for an assembly of citizens. In Latin it came to mean a church, a house of worship. Medieval scribes also wrote eclesia.
You meet it in phrases such as ecclesia parochialis (the parish church), in facie ecclesiae (before the congregation) and in the name of a church: ecclesia Sancti Martini.
As seen in a recordLatin burial register, Austria, 1780s
Sepultus in coemeterio ecclesiae parochialis
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Daily Ancestor. "ecclesia." Dictionary of Old Record Words. https://dailyancestor.com/dictionary/latin/ecclesia. Last checked 2026-10-12.