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A '''congregation''' is a group of people gathered together. It has at least three uses. The most common is a congregation as the group of members who make up a local [[Christian]] church or [[Jew]]ish synagogue (or those who are present at a service thereat), as opposed to the building itself.

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==Religion==

*[[Church (congregation)]], a religious organization that meets in a particular ___location

*[[Congregation (Roman Curia)]], an administrative body of the Catholic Church

*[[Religious congregation]], a type of religious institute in the Catholic Church

*[[Congregation (group of houses)]], in some religious orders of the Catholic Church

== Music ==

A more specialized use of congregration is its use as the name of a branch of [[Roman Catholic Church]] government. Those divisions are:

* [[The Congregation for(band)]], an English Bishopspop group

* [[Congregation for(The CatholicAfghan EducationWhigs album)|''Congregation'' (forThe SeminariesAfghan andWhigs Institutesalbum)]], of1992, Study)and its title song

* [[Congregation for(Kerbdog the Causesalbum)|''Congregation'' of(Kerbdog Saintsalbum)]], 2014

* [[The Congregation (Johnny Griffin album)|''The Congregation'' (Johnny Griffin album)]], 1957

*Congregation for the Clergy

* [[The Congregation (Leprous album)|''The Congregation'' (Leprous album)]], 2015

*Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments

* [[Congregation for the(song)|"Congregation" Doctrine(song)]], ofby theFoo FaithFighters, 2014

*Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples

*Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life

*Congregation for the Oriental Churches

==Other uses==

Congregation is also used to refer to the assembly of senior members of a [[university]], especially in the [[United Kingdom]], e.g. Regent House in the [[University of Cambridge]], and the House of Congregation and the Ancient House of Congregation in the [[University of Oxford]].

*[[Congregation (university)]], a formal meeting of a university

== See also ==

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* [[Congregate (disambiguation)]]

* [[Congregational church]], Protestant churches in the Reformed (Calvinist) tradition

* ''[[Qahal]]'', an Israelite organizational structure often translated as 'congregation'

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