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Pater may refer to:

Latin for "father"

*a title given to a father deity
** Dis Pater, a Roman and Celtic god of the underworld, later subsumed by Pluto or Jupiter
** God the Father in Christianity
*a title or honorific applied to a male community leader
**a honorific for ordained Catholic priests
**Pater familias
**Pater Patriae
**Pater, the leader of a Mithraeum in Mithraism

People with the surname

* Grzegorz Pater (born 1974), Polish soccer player
* Jean-Baptiste Pater (1695–1736), French painter
* Walter Pater (1839–1893), English essayist, critic and humanist

Popular culture

* Pater (film), ''Pater'' (film), a 2011 French film
* Pater Moeskroen, Dutch Folkband
* Stade Pater Te Hono Nui, a stadium/sports complex in Pirae, Tahiti

Other uses

*Pastil, a Filipino packed rice dish

See also

*Pater noster
*Patriarch
*Patriarchy
*Mater (disambiguation)

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