Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun doctor_of_the_church

1 sense of doctor of the church

Sense 1
Doctor of the Church, Doctor -- ((Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching; "the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages")
       => theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser -- (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)