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

For many years he was ministering within his mother church.

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

In the end the mother church filled up again.

It is considered the mother church of the United States.

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

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

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

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

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