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JOHN CHRYSOSTOM

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Overview

JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (noun)
  The noun JOHN CHRYSOSTOM has 1 sense:

1. (Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople; a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-407)play

  Familiarity information: JOHN CHRYSOSTOM used as a noun is very rare.


English dictionary: Word details


JOHN CHRYSOSTOM (noun)


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Meaning:

(Roman Catholic Church) a Church Father who was a great preacher and bishop of Constantinople; a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-407)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

John Chrysostom; St. John Chrysostom

Instance hypernyms:

Church Father; Father; Father of the Church ((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)

Doctor; Doctor of the Church ((Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching)

preacher; preacher man; sermoniser; sermonizer (someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel)

saint (a person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization)

theologian; theologiser; theologist; theologizer (someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology)

Domain category:

Church of Rome; Roman Catholic; Roman Catholic Church; Roman Church; Western Church (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)


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