Father of the Nation

In Spain, the monarch is considered the personification and embodiment, the symbol of unity and permanence of the nation.

Gnassingbé Eyadéma of Togo's titles included "father of the nation", "older brother", and "Guide of the People".

[1] Mobutu Sese Seko of Zaire's included "Father of the nation", "the Guide", "the Messiah", "the Leopard", "the Sun-President", and "the Cock who Jumps on Anything That Moves".

[3] On Joseph Stalin's seventieth birthday in 1949, he was bestowed with the title "Father of Nations" for his establishment of "people's democracies" in countries occupied by the USSR after World War II.

[5] A motion in the Parliament of Slovakia to proclaim controversial pre-war leader Andrej Hlinka "father of the nation" barely failed in September 2007.