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The term "catholic"
The word catholic (derived via Late Latin, from the ancient Greek adjective 'universal') comes from the Greek phrase 'on the whole, according to the whole, in general', and is a combination of the Greek words 'about' and 'whole'. The first known use of "Catholic" was by the church father Saint Ignatius of Antioch in his Letter to the Smyrnaeans (circa 110 AD). In the context of Christian ecclesiol... Wikipedia
