Gloria Patri

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church | 2000 | 197 words | Copyright

Gloria Patri. The first words of the Lesser Doxology (‘Glory be to the Father’, etc.), an ascription of praise to the Trinity. Its use at the end of Psalms dates from the 4th century.

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