Ignatius

Ignatius

Bishop of Antioch in the early second century, is apparently the first to use the word "Catholic". Around the turn of the century, he wrote a series of letters speaking habitually of a single bishop (or pastor) in each church, a body of presbyters, and company of deacons.

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