holy father

Questions about holy father

What does holy father mean?

holy father means "the head of the Roman Catholic Church".

What is another word for holy father?

Close synonyms include pope, Catholic Pope, Roman Catholic Pope, pontiff, Vicar of Christ. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is holy father a common word?

holy father is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.