CONGREGATIO

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From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  CONGREGATION. A society of a number of persons who compose an ecclesiastical 
  body. In the ecclesiastical law this term is used to designate certain 
  bureaux at Rome, where ecclesiastical matters are attended to. In the United 
  States, by congregation is meant the members of a particular church, who 
  meet in one place worship. See 2 Russ. 120.