cerkveni oče
1. cerkveni oče
(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 [(Krščanstvo) kateri od približno 70 teologov v obdobju od 2. do 7. stoletja, katerih pisanje je ustanovilo in potrdilo uradno cerkveno doktrino; v Rimskokatoliški cerkvi so nekateri kasneje razglašeni za svetnike in postali zdravniki Cerkve; najbolj znani latinski cerkveni očetje so Ambróž, Avguštin, Gregor Veliki in Hieronim; tisti, ki so pisali v grščini, vključujejo Atanazija, Bazilija, Gregorja Nazianškega in Janeza Zlatoustega.]
2. cerkveni oče, cerkveni učitelj
(Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching [(Rimskokatoliška Cerkev) naziv podeljen 33 svetnikom, ki so se izkazali s pravovernostjo svojega teološkega poučevanja.]