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4 days ago · On Oct. 17, the Roman Catholic Church remembers the early Church Father, bishop, and martyr Saint Ignatius of Antioch, whose writings attest to the sacramental and hierarchical nature of the ...
5 days ago · St. Ignatius of Antioch. ... Born aroud the year 50 in Syria, Ignatius was an Apostolic Father of the Church, a disciple, with Saint Polycarp, of Saint John the Evangelist, and the third bishop of ...
5 days ago · St. Ignatius of Antioch was born in Syria around the year 50 A.D. According to tradition, he was the second bishop of Antioch, after St. Evodius. During a persecution, St. Ignatius held to the faith and was sent to Rome to be executed. En route, representatives of many churches welcomed him.
4 days ago · Ignatius of Antioch and His Emphasis on Unity Ignatius of Antioch underscored the importance of church unity and hierarchy, which laid groundwork for the ecclesiastical structure. His letters insisted on the unity of the church under a single bishop, a valuable witness to the universal nature of the church.
3 days ago · Ignatius of Antioch (also known as Theophorus) was the third Bishop or Patriarch of Antioch and a student of the Apostle John. En route to his martyrdom in Rome, Ignatius wrote a series of letters which have been preserved as an example of the theology of the earliest Christians.
4 days ago · In his epistle to the Christians of Smyrna in the second century, St. Ignatius of Antioch called the priesthood “the apex of dignities,” while St. Ephrem the Syrian described the priestly vocation as “an astounding miracle, great, immense and infinite” whose dignity “surpasses all understanding.”
3 days ago · In a letter written 110 A.D., St. Ignatius of Antioch warned the Smyrnaeans about the Docetes - gnostic heretics: They (the Docetes) have no care for love, no thought for the widow and orphan ...
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