Doctor of the Church

Her women would be doctors of the church, you see!

She is one of only three female Doctors of the Church.

A doctor of the church, a priest and translator of the Bible.

The doctors of the church: they mapped out the whole theology of it.

His papacy has truly been great and he will one day be canonized as a saint and doctor of the church!

Everywhere he was regarded as "the herald of the truth and the doctor of the church"; "even distant churches received instruction from him."

Gregory is a Doctor of the Church and one of the Latin Fathers.

Augustine of Hippo called him "the illustrious doctor of the churches", and his works continued to be highly influential in later centuries.

Around the seated Doctors of the Church one can find niches, baldachins, pilasters and emblatures.

They'd talk theology, and Aquinas, and all the learned doctors of the Church, while my mother fetched and carried for them.

The school is named after Bonaventure, a saint in the Catholic church and a Doctor of the Church.

The simple grasp a truth of their own, perhaps truer than that of the doctors of the church, but then they destroy it in unthinking actions.

Along the walls, the statues of apostles and doctors of the church were completed by 1740 by Francesco Schiaffino.

Doctor of the Church St Alphonsus Liguori (1696-1787) adopted this pious practice and highly recommended it.

Hildergard of Bingen, a doctor of the church, is among the most distinguished of Medieval Catholic women scientists.

Roundels of medieval glass, originally from Glastonbury Abbey and depicting the heads of three doctors of the church, have been preserved.

Saint Jerome, Doctor of the Church, is the Patron Saint of Dueñas.

The cathedra is lofted on splayed scrolling bars that appear to be effortlessly supported by four over-lifesize bronze Doctors of the Church.

"The commentators," says Venturi; "suppose these four to be the four evangelists, but I should rather take them to be four principal doctors of the church."

Writer of the dominant theological text for the time: The Sentences (commentaries on the writings of the Doctors of the Church)

The main entrance is an arch flanked by estipite and Salomonic columns with have images of the doctors of the church, as well as the twelve Apostles.

In the remaining spaces were the Eternal Father Blessing and the Doctors of the Church within frames, frescoed by Niccolò Pizzolo.

Saint Teresa's visions transformed her life and she became a key figure in the Catholic Church eventually being recognized as one of only three female Doctors of the Church.

Doctors of the Church - title given by a variety of Christian churches to individuals whom they recognize as having been of particular importance, particularly regarding their contribution to theology or doctrine.

Aquinas, a Doctor of the Church, considered them to be the "primary precepts of justice and all law, and natural reason gives immediate assent to them as being plainly evident principles."