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Does anyone know when the use of the word Catholic was first applied and to whom did it indentify?
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It was part of the Creed, to mean "Universal", as the Catholic and Orthodox Churches were one at the time. Do you mean as in the Catholic Church?
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The term Catholic was used first of all during St Igantius of Antioch's seven epistles at the term of the first century as he headed to Rome to die for the faith. Naturally it identified all the Christians of the time (that is Christians in the Church not, for example, the heretics he spends his time defending the truth against in his epistles).
"We love, because he first loved us"--1 John 4:19
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St Ignatius of Antioch: "Wheresoever," he writes, "the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ is, there is the Catholic Church."
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Gaudior,
The Church is still Universal and has never ceased to be so.
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