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Meaning of patrology in English:

patrology

Pronunciation /pəˈtrɒlədʒi/

noun

another term for patristics
  • ‘Scripture, patrology, biblical hermeneutics, theology, doctrine - all displaced because of the towering impertinence of what Sir Humphrey Appleby once called the ‘perpendicular pronoun.’’

Origin

Early 17th century from Greek patēr, patr- ‘father’ + -logy.