Mother Church Definition
noun
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.
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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 .
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The original denomination or community of believers from which other denomination s and communities of believers sprang .
The Church of England is the mother church of Anglicans around the world.
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mother churchesOrigin of Mother Church
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From an association of spiritual comfort and hierarchy with familial relationships, probably originally as a calque of similar expressions in other languages, especially 2nd-century Latin MOTHER CHURCH mater ecclesia (“mother church ") and 12th-century Old French MOTHER CHURCH mere eglise (“mother church ").
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