The Meaning of Father in the Early English Bible

In the early days of christianity, around the fourth century, only the bishop of rome was referred to with the title father. In the middle ages, monastic priests in europe started the trend as the word abbot, or the head of a monastery is derived from the semitic word abba,. Since these abbots were priests, they began to be referred to as fathers. By the eighteenth century, all monastic priest in europe were called father by the archbishop of westminster. But moving even further away from the sense of a kinship relationship, there is the more modern use of the word father to refer to some one whos the founder or origin tor

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