Ignatius of Antioch

Apostle

Commemorated December 20

Our father among the saints Ignatius the God-bearer of Antioch (probably died AD 107) was the third bishop of Antioch, after the Apostle Peter and Euodios , whom Ignatius succeeded around AD 68. Ignatius, who also called himself Theophorus (" God-bearer "), was most likely a disciple of both Apostles Peter and John . Several of his letters have survived to this day; he is one of the Apostolic Fathers (the earliest group of the Church Fathers ), and a saint in the Orthodox Church (feastday, December 20 ).

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