"state church" meaning in English

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          "name": "Theocracy",
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      "glosses": [
        "a church established by or controlled by the government of a country."
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      "related": [
        {
          "word": "state religion"
        },
        {
          "word": "caesaropapism"
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          "word": "established church"
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          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "church run by the state",
          "tags": [
            "feminine",
            "masculine"
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          "word": "statskirke"
        },
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          "sense": "church run by the state",
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            "feminine"
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          "word": "statskyrkje"
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  "word": "state church"
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        "a church established by or controlled by the government of a country."
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      "sense": "church run by the state",
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        "masculine"
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