English Dictionary

mother church

noun

(Christianity) The Church regarded as nourishing and protecting its members. / (Christianity) A church with oversight over another or others, now especially a cathedral or metropolitan church.

The mother church in our town is a beautiful historic building.

意味（1）

(Christianity) The Church regarded as nourishing and protecting its members.

Catholics regard Mary as Mother of the Church but an all-male hierarchy as the Mother Church.

意味（2）

(Christianity) A church with oversight over another or others, now especially a cathedral or metropolitan church.

Mothering Sunday arose from the custom of visiting mother churches at Mid-Lent, rather than the usual parish church.

意味（3）

(Christianity) The original church of a denomination, regarded as having birthed the others.

The mother church of Christian Scientists is in Boston, Massachusetts.

意味（4）

(Christianity) The original denomination or community of believers from which other denominations and communities of believers sprang.

Not Rome, but Ierusalem should be the Mother Church.