A wealthy port city of the Roman province of Asia, addressed as one of the seven churches of Revelation. Ignatius wrote to its church and to its bishop Polycarp, whose martyrdom there around 155–160 is described in the earliest surviving account of a Christian martyrdom.
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14 writings- AD 57Paul’s Letter to the PhilippiansThe New Testament1×
- AD 85The Letter to the EphesiansThe New Testament1×
- AD 85The First Letter of PeterThe New Testament1×
- AD 95The Gospel of JohnThe New Testament1×
- AD 95The Revelation to JohnThe New Testament2×
- AD 100The First Letter to TimothyThe New Testament1×
- AD 100The First Letter of JohnThe New Testament1×
- AD 110Ignatius of Antioch, Letter to the SmyrnaeansThe Early Church2×
- AD 180Irenaeus of Lyons, Against Heresies, Book IIIThe Early Church2×
- AD 230Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies, Book IXThe Early Church2×
- AD 320Eusebius, Church History, Book IIIThe Early Church4×
- AD 320Eusebius, Church History, Book IVThe Early Church9×
- AD 320Eusebius, Church History, Book VThe Early Church3×
- 2026Sources and further readingThe Dossier1×