spiritual father
Religious guidance figure
A spiritual father is a religious figure who guides someone's faith development, serving as mentor, confessor, or moral authority.
The term appears in Catholic, Orthodox, and other Christian traditions for priests or monks who provide ongoing spiritual direction.
More broadly, spiritual father describes anyone who profoundly shapes another's beliefs or inner life: He considered the Dalai Lama his spiritual father.
- teacherOne who instructs others
- shamanIndigenous spiritual healer
- priestOne who performs sacraments
- religious leaderOne shepherding believers
- pastorChristian congregation leader
counselor · lama · bishop · prayer · mystic · protector · hierophant · saint · monk · monastic life · guru · mentor · elder · guardian · rabbi · advisor · blessing · imam
- spiritual kinshipgodparent, godfather, godmother, godchild, godson
- Orthodox Spiritualitystillness, holy silence, deification, watchfulness, nous
- Orthodox monasticismabbot, abbess, monk, hermit, novice
- Orthodox Monksabbot, abbots, novice, novices, cenobite
- chosen familychosen family, found family, framily, adopted family, adoptive family
- faith communitybeliever, disciple, faithful, flock, parishioner
spiritual fatherbiological father
Male progenitor by blood
natural father · birth father · genetic father · biological parent · birth parent
spiritual fathercorruptor
One who spoils integrity
bad influence · tempter · misleader · false prophet · deceiver
spirit, spiritual, spiritually, spirituality, spirits, spirited, spiritless, spiritualism, spiritualist