Born in Syria in the middle of the first century ... Only let me attain to Jesus Christ.” St. Ignatius of Antioch bore witness to Christ publicly for the last time in Rome’s Flavian ...

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 ...

but St. Ignatius of Antioch, the Syrian bishop and martyr who, by tradition, was mauled by lions in Rome in the early second century. Most of what we know about Ignatius’s life comes from his ...

Ignatius, the third bishop of Antioch, who was born in Syria around the year A.D. 35 and is believed to have been a student of St. John the Apostle. If there is any quarreling about the three ...

Damascus, SANA- Patriarchs of Syria have congratulated ... Patriarch of Antioch and All the East for the Greek Orthodox; Ignatius Aphrem II, Patriarch of Antioch and All the East for the Syriac ...

74.9 x 74.9 cm. (29.5 x 29.5 in.) Probably listed in the 1579 inventory of the Compagnia di San Michele di Siena ("n. 2 Quadri una Madonna e uno santo Iniazio [sic]"); Probably listed in the 1584 ...

in Antioch. The Universal Syrian Orthodox Church is led by the Patriarch, currently Ignatius Aphrem II, who is the 123rd Patriarch in direct succession from St Peter, the statement said.