The Roman Catholic Church has excommunicated one of its priests, Father Feeney, for insisting that there is no salvation outside the visible church.

abate ), as commonly used in the Catholic Church on the European continent, is the equivalent of the English " Father " ( parallel etymology ), being loosely applied to all who have received the tonsure.

Ambrose was the only Father of the Church to leave behind so many writings on the subject and his attentions naturally enough led to the formation of communities which later became formal monasteries of women.

* Saint Anastasius Sinaita ( of Sinai ) – theologian, Father of the Eastern Orthodox Church, monk, priest, and abbot of the monastery at Mt.

He is considered to be a renowned Christian theologian, a Church Father, the chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism, and a noted Egyptian leader of the fourth century.

Athanasius is counted as one of the four Great Doctors of the Church in the Roman Catholic Church as well as one of the Great Doctors of the Church in Eastern Orthodoxy, where he is also labeled the " Father of Orthodoxy ".

In the Catholic Church, Patriarchs sometimes call their leaders Catholicos ; the Patriarch of the Orthodox Church of Alexandria, Egypt, is called Pope, meaning ' Father '.

In the 2nd century, Church Father Saint Irenaeus expressed his views of salvation as in terms of the imitation of Christ and his theory of " recapitulation ".

Church members believe that Joseph Smith was called to be a modern-day prophet through, among other events, a First Vision | visitation from God the Father and Jesus | Jesus Christ.

In a historical or geopolitical sense the term usually refers collectively to Christian majority countries or countries in which Christianity dominates or was a territorial phenomenon .“ Christendom is originally a medieval concept steadily to have evolved since the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the gradual rise of the Papacy more in religio-temporal implication practically during and after the reign of Charlemagne ; and the concept let itself to be lulled in the minds of the staunch believers to the archetype of a holy religious space inhabited by Christians, blessed by God, the Heavenly Father, ruled by Christ through the Church and protected by the Spirit-body of Christ ; no wonder, this concept, as included the whole of Europe and then the expanding Christian territories on earth, strengthened the roots of Romance of the greatness of Christianity in the world .”

Clement is regarded as a Church Father, and he is venerated as a saint in Orthodox Christianity, Eastern Catholicism and Anglicanism.

The major theme of the letter is the unity and reconciliation of the whole of creation through the agency of the Church and, in particular, its foundation in Christ as part of the will of the Father.

According to Irenaeus, a 2nd century Church Father, the church at Rome was founded directly by the apostles Peter and Paul.

The Church Father Epiphanius ( writing in the 4th century CE ) seems to make a distinction between two main groups within the Essenes: " Of those that came before his an Ossaean prophet time and during it, the Ossaeans and the Nazarean .".

Almost all the women who attended this service walked out with her, as well as a few men .” Her works include: The Church and the Second Sex ( 1968 ), Beyond God the Father ( 1973 ), Gyn / ecology: The Metaethics of Radical Feminism ( 1978 ), Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy ( 1984 ), Webster ’ s First Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language ( 1987 ), and Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage ( 1992 ).

The work is reflected in the Didache, the Gnostic writings of Basilides and Valentinus, the apologetics of the Church Father Justin Martyr, and was used by Marcion.

This course of action shows that the Church, loyal to the example and teaching of the divine Savior, is sincere and unselfish in her regard for men whom she strives to help even now during this earthly pilgrimage " to share God's life as sons of the living God, the Father of all men ".

The glorification of Father Herman was performed on August 9, 1970, at Holy Resurrection Cathedral in Kodiak, Alaska by the OCA with parallel services at the Synodal Cathedral of Our Lady, Joy of all who Sorrow in San Francisco by the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia ( ROCOR ).

* Address of the Great Council of Bishops of the Orthodox Church in America 11-13 March 1969, Concerning The Canonization of the Spiritual Father Herman of Alaska

John Chrysostom ( c. 347 – 407, ), Archbishop of Constantinople, was an important Early Church Father.

The Church Father Origen ( c. 185 to 254 AD ) knows the forms Nazará and Nazarét.

He is well known as an author and scholar, and his most famous work, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ( The Ecclesiastical History of the English People ) gained him the title " The Father of English History ".

Herodotus, who has been called the ' Father of History ', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then under Persian overlordship ).

* The History of Santa Claus and Father Christmas

He has been called the " Father of History ", and was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative.

He has been called " List of people known as the father or mother of something # H | The Father of History " ( first conferred by Cicero ) and " The Father of Lies ".

A few modern scholars have argued that Herodotus exaggerated the extent of his travels and invented his sources yet his reputation continues largely intact: " The Father of History is also the father of comparative anthropology ", " the father of ethnography ", and he is " more modern than any other ancient historian in his approach to the ideal of total history ".

Herodotus, who has been called the ' Father of History ', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then under Persian overlordship ).

* The Popes and Slavery Father Joel S Panzer, The Church In History Centre, 22 April 2008, retrieved 9 August 2009

The Hall of History is a museum about the history of Father Flanagan ’ s Boys ’ Home and the Boys Town programs.

* Dr. Kenneth McLaughlin, Dr. Gerald Stortz, and Father Jim Wahl, ' Enthusiasm for the Truth: An Illustrated History of Saint Jerome's University ', ( Waterloo: University of Waterloo Press © 2002 )

* Carter G. Woodson, historian, founder of Black History Month, " Father of Black History.

He reviewed Curran's Speeches, Carlyle's Life of Cromwell, a pamphlet by Isaac Butt on The Protection of Home Industry, The Age of Pitt and Fox, and later on The Poets and Dramatists of Ireland, edited by Denis Florence MacCarthy ( 4 April 1846 ); The Industrial History of Free Nations, by Torrens McCullagh, and Father Meehan's The Confederation of Kilkenny ( 8 August 1846 ).

His novels Die Leiden der Ortenbergischen Familie ( The Sorrows of the Ortenberg Family ) ( 1785 ) and Geschichte meines Vaters ( History of my Father ) ( 1788 ) met with appreciation ; even more so did his plays Adelheid von Wulfingen ( 1789 ), Menschenhass und Reue ( Misanthropy and Repentance ) ( 1790 ) and Die Indianer in England ( The Indians in England ) ( 1790 ).

* Mary Ann Mason, From Father ’ s Property To Children ’ s Rights, A History of Child Custody

Herodotus, who has been called the ' Father of History ', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then under Persian overlordship ).

Herodotus, who has been called the ' Father of History ', was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then under Persian overlordship ).

Herodotus, who has been called the " Father of History ", was born in 484 BC in Halicarnassus, Asia Minor ( then part of the Persian empire ).

He has been dubbed the " Father of English History ".

Bede's World in Jarrow ( Anglo Saxon ' Gyrwe ') is dedicated to the life of the Venerable Bede, the ' Father of English History '.

The first is from Father Franz Steyrer, written in his " Geschichte der Schwarzwälder Uhrmacherkunst " ( History of Clockmaking in the Black Forest ) in 1796.