💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Church father"
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| fathernoun | A male parent, especially of a human; a male who parents a child (which he has sired, adopted, fostered, taken as his own, etc.). |
| patristicsnoun | The study of the works of the early Christian Church Fathers. |
| patristic anthologynoun | A systematic collection of excerpts from the works of founders of the early Christian church and other early ecclesiastical writers, compiled to serve dogmatic or ethical purposes. |
| popenoun | (Roman Catholicism and generally) An honorary title of the Roman Catholic bishop of Rome as father and head of his church, a sovereign of the Vatican city state. |
| patriciannoun | A person of high birth; a nobleman. |
| patristnoun | Someone versed in patristics. |
| patriarchnoun | (biblical) A male leader of a family, tribe or ethnic group, especially one of the twelve sons of Jacob (considered to have created the twelve tribes of Israel) or (in plural) Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. |
| patristicismnoun | The mode of thought of the fathers of the early Christian church. |
| great churchnoun | (Eastern Orthodoxy) The Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople. |
| desert fathernoun | (religion, historical) Any of the early Christian hermits, ascetics and monks who lived mainly in the Scetes desert of Egypt, beginning around the third century AD, and were a major influence on the development of Christianity. |
| even-christiannoun | (obsolete) A fellow Christian. |
| patriarchatenoun | A patriarchal system or community. |
| vicar of christnoun | (Roman Catholicism) The Pope. |
| pontiffnoun | A bishop of the early Church; now specifically, the Pope. |
| presbyternoun | An elder, priest, pastor, or minister in various Christian churches. |
| origenismnoun | (Christianity) The teachings of Origen of Alexandria (fl. 3rd century), a Greek Church Father; in particular: |
| monopatrismnoun | (Christianity) In Christian theology, teachings that hold the Father as a singular source of a particular relation, for example: notion that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father only, as from the singular source of eternal procession. |
| apostolosnoun | (Christianity) A book containing texts traditionally believed to be authored by one of the twelve apostles. |
| high churchnoun | (Anglicanism) A tradition within the Anglican church with an elevated view of the priesthood, episcopacy, and sacraments, practising a formal style of liturgy and emphasising continuity with Catholicism. |
| friend of godnoun | (Christianity, historical) A member of a medieval mystical group of ecclesiastical and lay persons within the Catholic Church. |
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