saint ambrose
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1. (Roman Catholic Church) Roman priest who became bishop of Milan; the first Church Father born and raised in the Christian faith; composer of hymns; imposed orthodoxy on the early Christian church and built up its secular power; a saint and Doctor of the Church (340?-397) (noun.person)
| instance hypernym | : | bishop, |
| definition | : | a senior member of the Christian clergy having spiritual and administrative authority; appointed in Christian churches to oversee priests or ministers; considered in some churches to be successors of the twelve Apostles of Christ (noun.person) |
| instance hypernym | : | church father, father, father of the church, |
| definition | : | (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 (noun.person) |
| instance hypernym | : | composer, |
| definition | : | someone who composes music as a profession (noun.person) |
| instance hypernym | : | doctor, doctor of the church, |
| definition | : | (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching (noun.person) |
| instance hypernym | : | saint, |
| definition | : | a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization (noun.person) |
| derivation | : | ambrosian, |
| definition | : | of or by or relating to Saint Ambrose (adj.pert) |
| derivation | : | ambrosian, |
| definition | : | of or by or relating to Saint Ambrose (adj.pert) |
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