教父，基督宗教初期的教会作家
... begetter生产者 Father of the Church教会之父 bring forth产生 ...
We were standing at the top of a church tower. My father had brought me to this spot in a small Italian town not far from our home in Rome.
当时我们正站在一个教堂塔楼的顶上，是父亲把我从罗马的家里带到这个离家不远的意大利小镇楼顶上来的，我不明白他要做什么。
More than twice the number of people have left the church so far this year as in all of 2009, says Father Peter, the local priest.
当地神父彼得说，今年至今为止，离开教会的人数已是2009年的两倍多。
He also was the manager of a hundred-seat theatre that his father had created in an abandoned church.
他父亲在废弃的教堂的基础上建了一个容纳百人的小剧院，他担任经理。
He's engaging his father in to a contractual situation just as he will engage the entire English people in The Reason of Church Government.
他在使他的父亲加入这个合同,就像他使整个英国国民加入一样,我们在《教会政府的原因》里已经看到过。
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He said his Holiness would be remembered as "a Pope of surprises" and "a latter day father of the church".
He moved to the town as a little boy when his father became the pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, across the street from the family's house.
He was freezing more and more solid, he felt like, but he had not thought of his father or the blank frozenness of his father, even in church, which had once filled him with such pity.