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mother churchnoun1 (Mother Church or Holy Mother Church) The Roman Catholic Church, regarded as a mother in its functions of nourishing and protecting the believer: they have been loyal servants to Mother Church the traditional teachings of Holy Mother Church...- Such is the kind wisdom of Holy Mother Church.
- Inquisitors sought to reconcile to the Holy Mother Church those whose writings or behaviours had cast their orthodoxy into doubt.
- The Virgin Mary gives suck to the infant Jesus both as his historical mother and as the metaphysical image of nourishing Mother Church.
1.1The principal church of a country, region, or city: the cathedral is the mother church of the diocese of Chelmsford...- Parishioners would return to the church where they had been baptised, or to worship in the Mother Church in their district.
- Many focus on the Cathedral as the Mother Church of our diocese.
- After the family service at the Mother Church, there would be a celebration lunch.
1.2The original church from which others have sprung: the Church of England is considered the mother church of the Anglican Communion they founded the First Baptist Church of Charleston, which became the mother church of Baptists in the South...- Christian Scientists constitute a significant voting block in Massachusetts, home to the Mother Church.
- The service took place at St Giles's Cathedral, Edinburgh (the Mother Church of Presbyterianism).
- The Chiesa Il Gesù, a 16th-century late Renaissance church in Rome, is the mother church of the Society of Jesus, also known as the Jesuits.
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