Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic answers.

When I converted to Catholicism 20 years ago, I said that I wanted to be like the first

Christians. I saw there were all these churches, all these denominations. I tried reading

the Bible. I said, you know, I just want to be like the very first Christians. And so

there was one particular church father that stood out to me in reading his writings that

moved me towards joining the Catholic faith. And that's why I want to talk about today.

So welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast. I'm your host, Catholic answers, a polygist

and speaker, Trent Horn. Where we get to our church father today, I'm very excited to

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Check that out at Trent Horn podcast.com. All right. Now on to the mystery church father.

And this person would be St. Ignatius of Antioch. So St. Ignatius of Antioch was the Bishop

of Antioch, a city in what was then called Asia Minor. Now would be modern day Turkey.

An Antioch was interesting in the book of Acts. I believe it's Acts chapter 11. It says

in the city of Antioch, that is where the followers of the way, the followers of Jesus Christ

were first called Christians. And I think that it's very poetic that Antioch is where

believers were first called Christians. It's also the first documented case of the church

being referred to as the Catholic church, Catholic being a Greek word, Kata Holos, according

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