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Ignatius of Antioch Ignatius of Antioch Ignatius of Antioch (Ancient Greek: Ἰγνάτιος Ἀντιο- Epistles attributed to Ignatius report his arrest by the au- χείας, Ignátios Antiokheías; AD c. 35 or 50 – 98 to thorities and travel to Rome: 117[1]), also known as Ignatius Theophorus (Ιγνάτιος ὁ Θεοφόρος, Ignátios ho Theophóros, lit. “the God- From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild bearing”), was a student of John the Apostle, and was the beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, be- [2][3] third bishop of Antioch. En route to Rome, where ing bound amidst ten leopards, even a company according to Christian tradition he met his martyrdom of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are by being fed to wild beasts, he wrote a series of letters kindly treated. — Ignatius to the Romans, 5. which have been preserved as an example of very early Christian theology. Important topics addressed in these Along the route he wrote six letters to the churches in the letters include ecclesiology, the sacraments, and the role region and one to a fellow bishop. He was sentenced to of bishops. die at the Colosseum.[8] In his Chronicle, Eusebius gives the date of Ignatius’s death as AA 2124 (2124 years after Adam), which would amount to the 11th year of Trajan’s 1 Life reign; i.e., AD 108.[9] [4] After Ignatius’ martyrdom in the Colosseum his remains Ignatius converted to Christianity at a young age. Later were carried back to Antioch by his companions and were in his life he was chosen to serve as a Bishop of Antioch, interred outside the city gates. The reputed remains of Ig- succeeding Saint Peter and St. Evodius (who died around natius were moved by the Emperor Theodosius II to the AD 67). The 4th-century Church historian Eusebius [5] Tychaeum, or Temple of Tyche, which had been con- records that Ignatius succeeded Evodius. Making his verted into a church dedicated to Ignatius. In 637 the apostolic succession even more immediate, Theodoret of relics were transferred to the Basilica di San Clemente in Cyrrhus reported that St. Peter himself appointed Ig- Rome. natius to the episcopal see of Antioch.[6] Ignatius called himself Theophorus (God Bearer). A tradition arose that he was one of the children whom Jesus took in his arms and blessed.[2] 2 Veneration Ignatius’ feast day was kept in his own Antioch on 17 October, the day on which he is now celebrated in the Catholic Church and generally in western Christianity, al- though from the 12th century until 1969 it was put at 1 February in the General Roman Calendar.[10][11] In the Eastern Orthodox Church it is observed on 20 December.[12] The Synaxarium of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria places it on the 24th of the Cop- tic Month of Koiak, corresponding in three years out of every four to 20 December in the Julian Calendar, which currently falls on 2 January of the Gregorian Calendar. Painting of Ignatius of Antioch from the Menologion of Basil II (c. 1000 AD) 3 Letters Ignatius is one of the five Apostolic Fathers (the earliest The following seven letters preserved under the name of authoritative group of the Church Fathers). He based his Ignatius: authority on being a bishop of the Church, living his life in the imitation of Christ. It is believed that St. Ignatius, • The Letter to the Ephesians, along with his friend Polycarp, with great probability were disciples of the Apostle St. John.[7] • The Letter to the Magnesians, 1 2 3 LETTERS • The Letter to the Trallians, the business of Jesus Christ, who was with the Father from the beginning and is at last made • The Letter to the Romans, manifest — Letter to the Magnesians 2, 6:1 • The Letter to the Philadelphians, Ignatius is known to have taught the deity of Christ: • The Letter to the Smyrnaeans, • The Letter to Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna. There is one Physician who is possessed both of flesh and spirit; both made and not By the 5th century, this collection had been enlarged made; God existing in flesh; true life in death; by spurious letters, and some of the original letters both of Mary and of God; first passible and were, at one point, believed to had been changed with then impassible, even Jesus Christ our Lord. interpolations,[13] created to posthumously enlist Ignatius —Letter to the Ephesians, ch. 7, shorter ver- as an unwitting witness in theological disputes of that age, sion, Roberts-Donaldson translation but that position «was vigorously combated by several British and German critics, including the Catholics Den- He stressed the value of the Eucharist, calling it a zinger and Hefele, who defended the genuineness of the “medicine of immortality” (Ignatius to the Ephesians entire seven epistles».[14] At the same time, the purported 20:2). The very strong desire for bloody martyrdom in eye-witness account of his martyrdom is also thought to the arena, which Ignatius expresses rather graphically in be a forgery from around the same time. A detailed but places, may seem quite odd to the modern reader. An spurious account of Ignatius’ arrest and his travails and examination of his theology of soteriology shows that he martyrdom is the material of the Martyrium Ignatii which regarded salvation as one being free from the powerful [15] is presented as being an eyewitness account for the church fear of death and thus to bravely face martyrdom. of Antioch, and attributed to Ignatius’ companions, Philo Ignatius is claimed to be the first known Christian writer of Cilicia, deacon at Tarsus, and Rheus Agathopus, a Syr- to argue in favor of Christianity’s replacement of the ian. Sabbath with the Lord’s Day: Although James Ussher regarded it as genuine, if there is any genuine nucleus of the Martyrium, it has been Be not seduced by strange doctrines nor by so greatly expanded with interpolations that no part of antiquated fables, which are profitless. For if it is without questions. Its most reliable manuscript even unto this day we live after the manner of is the 10th-century Codex Colbertinus (Paris), in which Judaism, we avow that we have not received the Martyrium closes the collection. The Martyrium grace ... If then those who had walked in an- presents the confrontation of the bishop Ignatius with cient practices attained unto newness of hope, Trajan at Antioch, a familiar trope of Acta of the mar- no longer observing Sabbaths but fashioning tyrs, and many details of the long, partly overland voy- their lives after the Lord’s day, on which our age to Rome. The Synaxarium of the Coptic Orthodox life also arose through Him and through His Church of Alexandria says that he was thrown to the wild death which some men deny ... how shall we be beasts that devoured him and rent him to pieces.[3] able to live apart from Him? ... It is monstrous to talk of Jesus Christ and to practise Judaism. Ignatius’s letters proved to be important testimony to the For Christianity did not believe in Judaism, but development of Christian theology, since the number of Judaism in Christianity — Ignatius to the Mag- extant writings from this period of Church history is very nesians 8:1, 9:1-2, 10:3, Lightfoot translation. small. They bear signs of being written in great haste and without a proper plan, such as run-on sentences and an He is also responsible for the first known use of the unsystematic succession of thought. Ignatius is the earli- Greek word katholikos (καθολικός), meaning “univer- est known Christian writer to emphasize loyalty to a sin- sal”, “complete” and “whole” to describe the church, writ- gle bishop in each city (or diocese) who is assisted by both ing: presbyters (possibly elders) and deacons. Earlier writings only mention either bishops or presbyters, and give the Wherever the bishop appears, there let the impression that there was usually more than one bishop people be; as wherever Jesus Christ is, there is per congregation. Philippians 1:1 the Catholic Church. It is not lawful to baptize For instance, his writings on bishops, presbyters and dea- or give communion without the consent of the cons: bishop. On the other hand, whatever has his approval is pleasing to God. Thus, whatever Take care to do all things in harmony with is done will be safe and valid. — Letter to the God, with the bishop presiding in the place of Smyrnaeans 8, J.R. Willis translation. God, and with the presbyters in the place of the council of the apostles, and with the dea- It is from the word katholikos (“according to the whole”) cons, who are most dear to me, entrusted with that the word catholic comes. When Ignatius wrote the 3 Letter to the Smyrnaeans in about the year 107 and used • The Epistle of Maria the Proselyte to Ignatius; the word catholic, he used it as if it were a word already • in use to describe the Church. This has led many scholars Epistle to Mary at Neapolis, Zarbus; to conclude that the appellation Catholic Church with its • First Epistle to St. John; ecclesial connotation may have been in use as early as the last quarter of the 1st century. On the Eucharist, he wrote • Second Epistle to St. John; in his letter to the Smyrnaeans: • The Epistle of Ignatius to the Virgin Mary. Take note of those who hold heterodox opinions on the grace of Jesus Christ which has 5 References come to us, and see how contrary their opinions are to the mind of God ..
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