The mother church has the whole picture and we expect it to do what is appropriate.

It flowered to become the mother church of the area.

For many years he was ministering within his mother church.

Here stood the mother church of at least three of the St.

In fact, there had been no return to the Mother Church.

This is considered the mother church of the Servite order.

In the end the mother church filled up again.

The abbey became the mother church of the order in Scotland.

He loved the law school as if it were the Mother Church.

But the desire of Mother Church does not stop here.

They import pastors or send them home to the mother church for training.

The first church built in a mission area is sometimes called the mother church.

The parish was considered the mother church of southeastern Idaho.

Those here described have come down to us from our mother Church of England.

Under these circumstances it is today considered the mother church of all Hawai'i.

How will Mother Church get out of this incredible problem?

Mother Church expected her priests to wed, for how could they understand the spiritual needs of husband or wife without experience?

My companion is from a foreign land, but he has been of service to Mother Church.

Mother church may also be a title of distinction based on a church's hierarchical importance.

It was the mother church of the missionary movement.

Read that the Mother Church is to run focus groups "to find out what its customers want."

Children from small villages had to attend school in the village of the parish mother church at first.

The sect's "mother church" is at the centre of the proposed mine site.

And even if they weren't, Mother Church's own bishops must know the truth!

With Mother Church against them, how could they hope to survive without such aid?