Mother church
Mother church or matrice is a term depicting the
Church as an organization
Primatial local churches
The "first see", or
The first local church in all of Christianity is that of
Catholic Church
This term is most often used among Catholics as Holy Mother Church.[7] The Church is considered to be a mother to her members because she is the Bride of Christ,[8] and all because the Church is considered the mother of believers just as God is called the Father of believers. Another term used in the Catechism is the title "Mater et Magistra" (Mother and Teacher).[9] Pope John XXIII made this the title of his encyclical celebrating the seventieth year after Leo XIII's groundbreaking social encyclical, explaining that in this Mother and Teacher all nations "should find ... their own completeness in a higher order of living."[10] Pope Francis said:[11]
The Church is our mother. She is our "Holy Mother Church" that is generated through our baptism, makes us grow up in her community and has that motherly attitude, of meekness and goodness: Our Mother Mary and our Mother Church know how to caress their children and show tenderness. To think of the Church without that motherly feeling is to think of a rigid association, an association without human warmth, an orphan.[11]
Anglican Communion
In Anglicanism, the Church of England gave rise to all the other Churches in the Anglican Communion, and as such she is considered the Mother Church.[12] The Archbishop of Canterbury thus serves as the focus of unity within the Anglican Communion.[13]
Methodist Church
In Methodism, the Methodist Church of Great Britain is considered the Mother Church by all the other Methodist Churches in the World Methodist Council, with Methodist Central Hall often being a symbol of this tradition.[14][15] This is because the Methodist Church of Great Britain "gave birth to the whole Methodist enterprise and then of a nineteenth-century church whose influence reached out across the world through the missionary endeavors of the various British Connexions within and beyond the British Empire."[14]
Apostolic Sees or Ecclesia matrix
He also refers to "Arles the mother church of France, supposedly planted by the Apostle's missionary Trophimus, first bishop of the place."[16]
Church as a building
Place of baptism
For a particular individual, one's mother church is the church at which one received the Christian sacrament of baptism (christening).[3][4] In the British Isles, Mothering Sunday is the traditional day in which one visits one’s mother church.[3][4]
Church of the Resurrection
The Mother Church of Christianity is the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem, the traditional site of the most important events in the religion. Within are the holiest spots of Christianity, chiefly, the place of Jesus' crucifixion, death, burial, and resurrection.
Cathedral
"Mother church" may also be a title of distinction based on a church's hierarchical importance. The church of the (
The pope's cathedral, the Papal Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran, is called Sacrosancta Lateranensis ecclesia omnium urbis et orbis ecclesiarum mater et caput ("Most Holy Lateran Church, Mother and Head of all the churches in the city and the world").[18]
Canterbury Cathedral, seat of the Archbishop of Canterbury, describes itself as the "Mother Church of the worldwide Anglican Communion".[19]
First mission church
The first church built in a mission area is sometimes called the mother church. For example, the
Principal church of a religious institute
The term may also relate to the churches of the various
Plantation churches
Another form of the phrase is mainly used in Protestant churches. A mother church is one from which other "daughter churches" were planted nearby.[22]
Historically significant churches
The oldest churches of various religious communities are often considered the mother churches to others that follow either in that same tradition or, alternatively, in a reformist tradition. A church's hierarchical importance is often derived from its historical importance in its organization. In addition, in communities where churches may change their ecclesiastical association or become independent (particularly in
The mother church in
Greater Refuge Temple Church in
References
- ^ "mother church – definition of mother church in English | Oxford Dictionaries". Oxford Dictionaries | English. Archived from the original on October 1, 2016. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ "Catholic Church: Glossary of Roman Catholic terms". BBC News. 2013-03-29. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8066-2498-3.
In England, Mothering Sunday is a day to honor both your mother church and your own mother. In the past, young people working away from home visited their mothers and the churches where they were baptized on Mothering Sunday.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8192-2337-1.
Mothering Sunday—In England children away from home at school or work were permitted to go home to visit their mothers and/or to visit their cathedral or mother church on this fourth Sunday of Lent. Today, many cathedrals and "mother" churches invite all who had been baptized there to return "home" to worship.
- St. James' Liturgy", ed. Brightman, p. 54). Saint Mark of syriac orthodox church is also known as last supper church and believe first christian church. "
- ^ Van Houwelingen, P.H.R. (2012). "Jerusalem, The Mother Church: Development of the Apostolic Church from the Perspective of Jerusalem". S árospatakiFüzetek. 2012 (3–4): 11–32.
- ^ "Catechism of the Catholic Church". www.vatican.va. Paragraphs 1163, 1667, 36. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ "Lumen gentium". www.vatican.va. Paragraphs 6,7,9,39. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ "Catechism of the Catholic Church". www.vatican.va. Paragraph 169. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ "Mater et Magistra (May 15, 1961) | John XXIII". w2.vatican.va. Paragraph 1. Retrieved 2017-07-17.
- ^ a b "Pope Francis: Church is a mother, not a rigid association". Retrieved 2017-07-18.
- ISBN 9781452266565.
A reduced Church of England at home is, however, the mother church of an expanding Anglican Communion--that is, an international association of Anglican churches. The nature of this entity is important.
- ISBN 9781621898528.
This is complicated by his special role within the Church of England, for the Anglican Communion is constructed on the historic relationship of its member churches to the English mother church, its senior primacy vested in the primate of all England.
- ^ ISBN 9780567290779.
British Methodism therefore holds an inescapable chronological priority in the history of world Methodism and it has also often been accorded a courteous priority of esteem, being regard still as the 'mother church' by Methodists from many parts of the globe. The story of the origins and development of Methodism in what is now the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, therefore, is the story, first, of an eighteenth-century movement which gave birth to the whole Methodist enterprise and then of a nineteenth-century church whose influence reached out across the world through the missionary endeavors of the various British Connexions within and beyond the British Empire.
- ISBN 9781598842043.
Then in 1855, the Methodist Church in Australia became independent of the mother church in Great Britain.
- ^ Bingham, J., The Antiquities of the Christian Church, University Press, 1855, p. 22-23.
- ^ See e.g. Rogers, KJN., A practical arrangement of ecclesiastical law,Saunders and Benning, 1840. p. 154.
- ^ a b Roma Sito Turistico Ufficiale - Christian Rome Dipartimento Promozione del Turismo e della Moda Accessed 11 Apr 2012
- ^ "Canterbury Cathedral – The Mother Church of The Worldwide Anglican Communion". Canterbury Cathedral. Retrieved 29 October 2019.
- ^ "Cathedral Art and Architecture". Archived from the original on 2008-11-21. Retrieved 2012-04-11.
- ^ HONORING THE BISHOPS OF SCRANTON, CHURCH AND THE JESUITS: THE CAMPUS The University of Scranton Accessed 11 April 2012.
- ^ E.Raymond - SOME CONVICTIONS ABOUT CHURCH PLANTING AND THE MOTHER / DAUGHTER CHURCH RELATIONSHIP published February 17, 2011 by TGC The Gospel Coalition Accessed 11 Apr 2012.
- ^ Mary Baker Eddy Institute: The Manual of The Mother Church, by Mary Baker Eddy, Article XXIII, Titles. Section2, p. 25 online and p. 70 in book
- ^ Christ Temple WORD Processing Ministry - History of C.O.O.L.J.C. Christ Temple of Clinton Maryland Accessed 11 Apr 2012.