English > Saint Jerome: 1 sense > noun 1, person | Meaning | (Roman Catholic Church) one of the great Fathers of the early Christian Church whose major work was his translation of the Scriptures from Hebrew and Greek into Latin (which became the Vulgate); a saint and Doctor of the Church (347-420). |
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| Synonyms | Jerome, St. Jerome, Hieronymus, Eusebius Hieronymus, Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus |
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| Category | Roman Catholic, Western Church, Roman Catholic Church, Church of Rome, Roman Church | The Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy |
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| 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 |
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| Doctor of the Church, Doctor | (Roman Catholic Church) a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching |
| saint | A person who has died and has been declared a saint by canonization |
| theologian, theologist, theologizer, theologiser | someone who is learned in theology or who speculates about theology |
| Spanish | Hierónimo |
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| Catalan | Jerome, Jeroni |
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