mother church
Noun
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Noun
mother church (plural mother churches)
- (Christianity) The Church regarded as nourishing and protecting its members.
- Catholics regard Mary as Mother of the Church but an all-male hierarchy as the Mother Church.
- (Christianity) A church with oversight over another or others, now especially a cathedral or metropolitan church.
- Mothering Sunday arose from the custom of visiting mother churches at Mid-Lent, rather than the usual parish church.
- Coordinate term: daughter church
- (Christianity) The original church of a denomination, regarded as having birthed the others.
- The mother church of Christian Scientists is in Boston, Massachusetts.
- (Christianity) The original denomination or community of believers from which other denominations and communities of believers sprang.
- The Church of England is the mother church of Anglicans around the world.
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