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RELATED WORDS : apostelic father christian holy day church father city father father father brown father christmas father figure father longlegs father of radio father of the church father of the submarine father surrogate father time foster father founding father high holy day holy holy city holy clover holy communion holy cross holy day holy day of obligation holy eucharist holy ghost holy grail holy innocents' day holy joe holy land holy man holy of holies holy oil holy order holy orders holy person holy place holy roller holy roman emperor holy roman emperor frederick ii holy roman empire holy sacrament holy saturday holy scripture holy see holy sepulcher holy sepulchre holy spirit holy terror holy thistle holy thursday holy trinity holy war holy war warriors holy water holy week holy writ holy year jewish holy day movement of holy warriors pilgrim father the holy see

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Noun holy father has 1 sense

• holy father(n = noun.person) bishop of rome, catholic pope, pontiff, pope, roman catholic pope, vicar of christ - the head of the Roman Catholic Church; Array
is a member of papacy, pontificate
is a kind of spiritual leader, catholic
has particulars: antipope, alexander vi, borgia, pope alexander vi, rodrigo borgia, benedict xiv, prospero lambertini, benedict xv, giacomo della chiesa, benedetto caetani, boniface viii, calixtus ii, guy of burgundy, alfonso borgia, borgia, calixtus iii, clement vii, giulio de' medici, clement xi, giovanni francesco albani, clement xiv, lorenzo ganganelli, gregory, gregory i, gregory the great, saint gregory i, st. gregory i, gregory, gregory vii, hildebrand, angelo correr, gregory, gregory xii, gregory, gregory xiii, ugo buoncompagni, bartolomeo alberto capillari, gregory, gregory xvi, innocent iii, lotario di segni, giovanni battista cibo, innocent viii, benedetto odescalchi, innocent xi, antonio pignatelli, innocent xii, angelo guiseppe roncalli, john xxiii, albino luciano, john paul i, john paul ii, karol wojtyla, leo i, leo the great, st. leo i, leo iii, bruno, bruno of toul, leo ix, giovanni de'medici, leo x, gioacchino pecci, giovanni vincenzo pecci, leo xiii, martin v, oddone colonna, nicholas v, tomasso parentucelli, alessandro farnese, paul iii, giovanni battista montini, paul vi, aeneas silvius, enea silvio piccolomini, pius ii, antonio ghislieri, pius v, giannangelo braschi, giovanni angelo braschi, pius vi, barnaba chiaramonti, luigi barnaba gregorio chiaramonti, pius vii, giovanni maria mastai-ferretti, giovanni mastai-ferretti, pius ix, giuseppe melchiorre sarto, giuseppe sarto, pius x, achille ratti, ambrogio damiano achille ratti, pius xi, eugenio pacelli, pius xii, francesco della rovere, sixtus iv, gerbert, sylvester ii, odo, odo of lagery, otho, otho of lagery, urban ii, guillaume de grimoard, urban v, bartolomeo prignano, urban vi, maffeo barberini, urban viii

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holy father

God the Father, Grand Penitentiary, Our Father, abuna, antipope, archbishop, archdeacon, archpriest, bishop, bishop coadjutor, canon, cardinal, cardinal bishop, cardinal deacon, cardinal priest, chaplain, coadjutor, curate, dean, diocesan, ecclesiarch, exarch, hierarch, high priest, metropolitan, papa, patriarch, penitentiary, pontiff, pope, prebendary, prelate, primate, rector, rural dean, subdean, suffragan, the All-father, the Creator, the Everlasting Father, the Father, the Holy Father, vicar

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