Local church

Local church may refer to:

• Church (congregation), a congregation meeting in a particular location
• Local churches (affiliation), a Christian group founded by Watchman Nee
• Parish church, a local church united with other parishes under a bishop or presbyter
• Congregationalist polity, a form of church organization by which each local church that governs itself independently
• Particular church, Roman Catholic ecclesial community
• "Local church" is the expression used to designate an autocephalous church in Eastern Orthodoxy

• Ecclesiastical polity, church government and structure