established church

基本解释

Like all evangelicals, they saw themselves as the nation’s conscience, firebrands breaking the doze of the established church.
就像其他福音派基督徒一样，他们自比民族的良心，破除旧教堂的发起者。
There are two established church in Britain: in England the church of England and in Scotland the (Presbyterian) Church of Scotland.
英国有两大国教，在英格兰是英格兰国教，苏格兰是苏格兰教会（长老教）。
A third is the fact that the Church of England, alone of the Communion, is an established church, its practices and values intertwined with the state and nation it serves.
第三个原因是圣公会已经建立起来，他的价值观与实践已经与它所服务的州府及国家纠缠在一起。

But the Mormon Church has established more than four thousand Family History Centers around the world.

The third complication is that England has an established church whose authority has been intertwined with the state's for five centuries.
ECONOMIST: Church and state

a Church that is officially recognized as a national institution, esp the Church of England