When Ignatius became the bishop of Antioch around the year 70, he assumed leadership of a local Church that was, according to tradition, first led by St. Peter before his move to Rome.

Born aroud the year 50 in Syria, Ignatius was an Apostolic Father of the Church, a disciple, with Saint Polycarp, of Saint John the Evangelist, and the third bishop of Antioch, the former See of ...