Doctor of the Church

American  

noun

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

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Example Sentences

Just six years later, Pope Francis' successor Leo XIV has recognised Newman with an even greater honour, making him a Doctor of the Church.

From BBC

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

From Washington Post

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.

From Washington Post

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.

From Newsweek

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

From Reuters