church father

Definition of Church Father in English :

Noun

1. church father, father, father of the church

(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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Church Father

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noun

any of the writers on Christian doctrine of the pre-Scholastic period

another name for Father (sense 2)

Church Father

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n.

Any of the authoritative early writers in the Christian church who formulated doctrines and codified religious observances.

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