What is the meaning of Doctor of the Church?

noun

  • Roman Catholic Church. ( a title conferred on 33 saints who distinguished themselves through the orthodoxy of their theological teaching)
    • usage: "the Doctors of the Church greatly influenced Christian thought down to the late Middle Ages"
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