Father of the Church

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noun

(Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine;
in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church;
the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome;
those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom
• Syn:
Church Father, Father
• Topics:
Christianity, Christian religion
• Hypernyms:
theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser
• Instance Hyponyms:
Ambrose, Saint Ambrose, St. Ambrose, Athanasius, Saint Athanasius,
St. Athanasius, Athanasius the Great, Augustine, Saint Augustine, St. Augustine, Augustine of Hippo,
Basil, St. Basil, Basil of Caesarea, Basil the Great, St. Basil the Great, Gregory,
Gregory Nazianzen, Gregory of Nazianzen, St. Gregory of Nazianzen, Irenaeus, Saint Irenaeus, St. Irenaeus,
Jerome, Saint Jerome, St. Jerome, Hieronymus, Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus,
John Chrysostom, St. John Chrysostom