...joined to the priest and the flock clinging to their shepherd are the Church. You ought to know, then, that the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop; and if someone is not with the bishop, he is not in the Church. They vainly flatter themselves who...

...quite simply, to depart from the church, the ark of salvation. By the same token, on the principle that "the bishop is in the church and the church in the bishop,"11 the character of the church as the home of God's Spirit and the Mother of saints also depended,...

...bishop, no church,* It is church leadership that forms the bond by which the church's unity is assured. 'You ought to know that the bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop; and if any one be not with the bishop, that he is not in the Church. . . . The Church, which is catholic...

...that implied for Ignatius: The Church is the people united ... to its shepherd. From this you should know that the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop.10 In the early part of the third century Hippolytus of Rome in his Apostolic Tradition gave...

...people united to their priest and a flock cleaving to their shepherd. Wherefore you should understand that the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop and that whoever is not with the bishop is not in the Church, and that they flatter themselves in vain...

...expression of this representation is still Cyprian's. To the argumentative Florentins Puppianus he writes that "the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop," '* to the point that "if someone is not with the bishop he is not in the Church." Speaking of the martyrdom...

...'The Church,' said Cyprian, 'is the people united to the bishop, the flock clinging to its shepherd. The bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop. '' The relation between the bishop and his flock is a mutual one. The bishop is the divinely appointed...

...blood that makes us one ... The Church is the people united ... to its shepherd. From this you should know that the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop.' 126 In theological and ecclesiological principle the diocese has remained such a community, and is...

...concerned about unity, Victor I (d. 198), but also an important bishop in Africa, Cyprian, who insisted, "The bishop is in the Church, and the Church in the bishop." But the Church is always the whole community, and not just the hierarchy. "I have made it a rule,"...

...70-85, reprinted in id., Ordinations . . . , [133]-[148). As for the bishop, see Cyprian, Ep. 66, 8 ("the bishop is in the Church and the Church in the bishop") and canon 18 of the Council of Ancyra (314) which stipulates that a bishop who is not accepted must...