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

1 sense of athanasius

Sense 1
Athanasius, Saint Athanasius, St. Athanasius, Athanasius the Great -- ((Roman Catholic Church) Greek patriarch of Alexandria who championed Christian orthodoxy against Arianism; a church father, saint, and Doctor of the Church (293-373))
       INSTANCE OF=> theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser -- (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)
       INSTANCE OF=> saint -- (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)
       INSTANCE OF=> Church Father, Father of the Church, Father -- ((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)
       INSTANCE OF=> 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")