Doctor of the Church

noun

1. a title conferred on an ecclesiastic for great learning and saintliness.

Example Sentences

Almost 150 years later, current pontiff Pope Leo XIV announced last week that Newman would be recognised as a Doctor of the Church.

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Dr. von Hildebrand spent decades championing the legacy of her husband, whom Pope Pius XII reputedly called “the twentieth-century Doctor of the Church.”

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And the lion, for me, is essential, even if it is almost certainly a fiction added by later writers who sought to humanize the lawyerly and confrontational Doctor of the Church.

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Long before he became one of the Doctors of the Church, Jerome took to a life of simplicity in the desert of Syria, rejecting worldly comforts.

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She and the Spanish clerical reformer Saint John of Avila were the first new Doctors of the Church to be named in 15 years.

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