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
See also Ecclesiastical polity, church government and structure