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Lacan considered St. Augustine’s De Trinitate to be a model for the scientific theorization of the name-of-the-father and recommended it to analysts. However, he also noticed the repetition of the “I don’t know what leakage” concerning the father, a leakage that limits what can be said about it. This paper focuses on these two points. St. Augustine analyzed the nomination of the divine in structural terms and brought to the fore certain logical constraints which, according to Lacan, the subject as such is subjugated to. In particular, his notion of the person viewed in the context of a relationship corresponds exactly to Lacan’s definition of the signifier as “what represents a subject for another signifier”. Sexual difference is also a matter for consideration. The two major conflicts between “orthodoxy” and “heresy,” which have marked the history of theology, take on, in this light, a founding subjective range and lose their apparent futility. Lacan thus gave to theology its status as a structural theorization of the subject. As for the repeated leakage concerning the father, its various recurrences take the form of a structural pattern separate from what belongs to the unconscious.