Is Origen a saint and a Church Father?

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Has Origen been canonized a saint? I know he is considered a Church Father, but I have never heard him refered to as St. Origen.
 
Origen is not considered to be either a saint or a Father of the Church because he embraced a heresy known as the *apokatastasis *(the belief that all must necessarily be saved). However, because of his importance as an early Christian writer and because of his orthodoxy on most issues, he is often quoted alongside early Church Fathers when demonstrating the antiquity of orthodox Christian belief.

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Origen and Origenism
 
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