Ignatius of Antioch

Giovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754 · Public domainGiovanni Paolo Panini, Interior of St. Peter's, Rome, c. 1754

Church Fatherd. c. 107

Who

Bishop of Antioch, carried to Rome under Trajan to die in the arena; on the way he wrote seven letters to the churches of Asia and to Polycarp that are the first witness to the threefold ministry, to the Eucharist as the flesh of Christ, and to the church of Rome as one that presides. Later tradition made him a disciple of Peter or of John.

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In the succession →

See of Antioch, c. 69–107.

Taught by: John the Apostled. c. 100
Martyrium Ignatii and the Syriac Chronicle of Edessa (tradition)
Peter the Apostled. c. 64/67
Origen, Homilies on Luke 6 (Ignatius the second bishop of Antioch after Peter); Eusebius, Church History III.36 (tradition)

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