kilise babası

Turkish - English

Definition of kilise babası in Turkish English dictionary

church father

(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 Lation Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

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

Hyphenation

ki·li·se ba·ba·sı