1. A fear regarding the Fathers of the early Church: In the story Jim was reading he came across a very young character who developed patrophobia and avoided the priests by running away and hiding.
2. An abnormal dread of one's father: Sometimes Grace's dad came home late and, being drunk, he behaved quite badly towards her mother and the other children, and from then on she had patrophobia and ignored him and steered clear of him whenever possible!