Толковый словарь английского языка - congregation

noun Date: 14th century 1. an assembly of persons ; gathering, a religious community: as, an organized body of believers in a particular locality, a Roman Catholic religious institute with only simple vows, a group of monasteries forming an independent subdivision of an order, the act or an instance of congregating or bringing together ; the state of being congregated, a body of cardinals and officials forming an administrative division of the papal curia