Se llama padres de la Iglesia a un grupo de pastores y escritores eclesiásticos cristianos, obispos en su mayoría, que van desde el siglo I hasta el siglo VIII, y cuyo conjunto de doctrina es considerado testimonio de la fe y de la ortodoxia en la Iglesia católica. Para el protestantismo, sin embargo, los escritos emanados de la patrística son eminentemente testimoniales, corroborativos en la medida en que se sometan a una sólida exégesis de la Biblia.

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The Church Fathers, Early Church Fathers, Christian Fathers, or Fathers of the Church are ancient and generally influential Christian theologians, some of whom were eminent teachers and great bishops. The term is used of writers or teachers of the Church not necessarily ordained and not necessarily "saints"— and are often considered Church Fathers but are not saints owing to their views later deemed heretical—although most are honored as saints in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Ancient and Assyrian Churches of the East, Anglican, Lutheran churches, and other churches and groups. By 700 AD, the era of these, the scholars who set the theological and scholarly foundations of Western Christianity, had ended. While western churches regard only early teachers of Christianity as Fathers, the Orthodox Church honors as "Fathers" many saints far beyond the early centuries of church history, even to the present day.

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