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IGNATIUS ANTIOCHENUS
UBI COM PARUERIT EPISCOPUS, IBI ET MULTITUDO SIT, QUEMADMODUM, UBI FUERIT CHRISTUS IESUS, IBI CATHOLICA EST ECCLESIA.

WHEREVER THE BISHOP APPEARS, THERE LET THE PEOPLE BE; AS WHEREVER JESUS CHRIST IS, THERE IS THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

ΣΜΥΡΝΑΙΟΙΣ ΙΓΝΑΤΙΟΣ - EPISTOLA AD SMYRNAEOS, VIII (~107 A.D.): CF. MIGNE, PATROLOGIA GRAECA, TOM. V, COL. 713.

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